Why it matters
Where misunderstanding costs a company
Drift rarely looks like failure. It looks like work that was done, reviewed and shipped, and turns out not to be what anyone meant.
- ReworkEngineers re-explain, re-review and redo work an agent built to the wrong target.
- Errors that reach customersTests written to the same misunderstanding pass, so the mistake ships with a green check.
- Invisible reasoningReviewers see the change, not what the agent believed it was asked to do, so the misreading is hard to spot.
- Lessons that stay with one personOne engineer's hard-won correction doesn't help anyone else's agent.
“Don't take this as the whole truth, but I'm going to be clear with you. If you just take the coherence check and set up a harness that makes it happen, you're probably going to get 10 to 15 percent more productivity. That gain isn't from the agent doing more.”
We do not promise a number up front. The first step of every engagement measures where drift is costing your teams today, so improvement can be measured against it.