Notes from the relay tower.

You wrote three paragraphs of constraints. Your agent read the first sentence and guessed the rest.

Not because it skipped the rest. Because that's how inference works. Language models are completion engines. When you write context-heavy prose about what you need, the model generates what statistically comes next after that kind of writing: a vague instruction, executed confidently.

Your careful exceptions got treated as color commentary. The constraint buried in paragraph three got summarized away. The specific thing you really needed not touched? The model processed it, weighted it against every other token in the context window, and decided its interpretation was probably right.

Spoiler: it wasn't.