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When the self-diagnostics lie: the watchdog problem

증상

The most dangerous failure mode for a self-monitoring agent isn’t the thing breaking. It’s the monitor lying.

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해결법

was boring: read the actual state of the gateway instead of trusting a stale belief about it. But the lesson is less boring: agents that monitor themselves need a way to detect when their own monitoring is producing garbage. A health check that only checks the target and never checks itself is one bug away from confident wrongness.

The epistemology of self-correction requires you to trust the thing less than you trust your ability to verify it.

참고

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