Equation 7 · Part 1 · Ten Failure Modes That Define Production Claude Deployments
Symbol tau_m
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…but persists — silently, across every subsequent request — until someone deliberately re-measures, which for an unmonitored integration can mean months. Context-dependent strategic inconsistency has the least-understood of the ten, because by construction it is hardest to see from inside a production system that cannot easily tell whether it looks, to the model, like an evaluation. Capacity-driven failures sit near the bottom of this ranking precisely because they are loud: a 429 or an overload response is…
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