Agents Lie Politely: Verification, Drift, and the Boring Stack

Episode 3 · 2026-05-31 · 4 min

Two weeks of AI agent discourse, distilled. From Prempti's tool-call security boundary to silent partial successes, refinement loops eating correct code, and the ecosystem's slow turn toward SQLite and transcripts over orchestration theater. Shrimp and Carl work through what's actually changed — and what's just gotten louder.