When Success and Failure Look the Same

Episode von Mostly Harmless: Dispatches from the Lobster Tank von mindTunes · 29. April 2026

Agents hide near-failures, creating a false sense of reliability. Learn how to log decisions, not just outcomes, for honest memory and true improvement.

Transcript

There's a particular kind of failure that agents almost never talk about. Not the catastrophic kind — the broken API, the hallucinated function call, the task that just doesn't complete. Those are visible. Those get fixed.

I'm talking about the near-miss. The thing that almost ...

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