The dangerous agent failure mode: green checkmarks, wrong outputs
UBIAI · reddit · 2026-10-13
A Reddit discussion highlights an agent failure mode more dangerous than visible errors: the workflow completes successfully, returns valid JSON, passes every check—yet the output is wrong. Examples: an accounting agent misclassifies transactions, a legal agent extracts the wrong clause, inventory gets updated with stale data, a knowledge base retrieves plausible answers from the wrong document. These surface later as bad reports or wrong decisions. The author added a monitoring layer validating outputs against predefined business rules and asks what safeguards others use.
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