Ethan Mollick: Language Drift Is the Worst Problem in Long-Running Agents

Ethan Mollick noted that in long-running agentic tasks, the most annoying issue is no longer errors or hallucinations but gradual language drift degrading output quality—and even a full agent workflow with voice guidelines couldn't fully contain it.

2026-09-21 ~ 2026-09-21 · 2 related posts

• Mollick: the most annoying part of long agentic tasks is language drift, not hallucinations — emollick · 2026-09-21
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