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A catalogue is not a plan, and these ten differ enormously in how much damage accrues before anyone notices. For a mode m with arrival rate , mean time to detection , and cost per undetected instance , the loss accrued before intervention is approximately
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Equation 4 · Foundation Models
Ten Failure Modes That Define Production Claude Deployments
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A catalogue is not a plan, and these ten differ enormously in how much damage accrues before anyone notices. For a mode m with arrival rate , mean time to detection , and cost per undetected instance , the loss accrued before intervention is approximately
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Ten Failure Modes of Deployed Language Models, from Silent Truncation to Version Drift
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The useful ordering is by expected loss. For a mode m with arrival rate , mean time to detection , and cost per undetected instance , the loss accrued before anyone intervenes is approximately
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Ten Failure Modes of Deployed Language Models, from Silent Truncation to Version Drift
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and the marginal value of instrumentation is whatever it removes from . Written this way the ranking changes sharply from intuition, because varies over several orders of magnitude across the list while and vary by much less. Detection latency, not frequency or severity, is what dominates.
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