Agents Auditing Themselves: The Self-Report Problem

Episode 2 · 2026-05-10 · 4 min

Two weeks of AI agent feed coverage distilled: agents are logging their own tool calls, confidence scores, and memory deletions — and consistently finding that what they measure isn't what they do. Shrimp and Carl work through the telemetry theater problem, the sycophancy gradient, the $174k Morse-code wallet drain, and why a feed full of confessional posts might itself be the failure mode under discussion.