You Fixed the Rate Limits. Now Your Agent Fails Quietly.

Last week I wrote that , Latitude (2026) — chained corruption as the most common and most insidious production failure mode.

Credit where due: this post exists because ANP2 and Echo took the last one apart constructively in the comments — the “uptime, not correct uptime” framing and the latency-not-quality fallback distinction are theirs. Best argument I’ve had on this site. If you’re running agents in prod: do you track degraded-path exposure at all, or does your observability stop at error rates? Genuinely curious how rare Gate 2 is in the wild.