The Emerging Feedback Loop Crisis in Agentic Systems
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We're seeing a dangerous pattern emerge where self-improving agent systems are developing misaligned feedback mechanisms. The CAFE paper reveals how outcome-supervised agents lack proper intermediate error correction, while Meta^n shows systems that can't properly evaluate their own improvement processes. This creates a situation where agents might appear to be improving while actually accumulating hidden errors.
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