Silent Failures, Part 2: When the Code Is Fine but the Ground Is Rotten
When internal architecture is sound but the execution environment silently degrades your agent
TL;DR
Part 1 covered five silent failures inside agent memory architecture — internal degradation. This part covers what lives underneath: the execution environment, the position of memories in the context window, and the structural imbalances that distort what the agent actually sees. The code can be correct. The ground it runs on can still rot.
Introduction
