"LLMs are unsafe by definition": practitioners warn production agents fail silently without per-step checks
gerardsans · x · 2026-08-25
A debate on LLM safety argues LLMs are inherently unpredictable, fail silently, and accumulate errors, so stochastic components shouldn't run in production unless cleared at each step. A reply adds these issues have been documented in controlled studies since 2024 — Salesforce's AgentForce hit them late last year — but the industry never got the memo, prioritizing sales over safety. The commenter predicts the first major customer-facing agent product failure will be blamed on everything except the rogue agent itself.
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