[joeljoseph_]

yeah that's a real concern. Few things I do:

Patterns aren't blindly trusted — they carry confidence scores and need real evidence before they go active. Low-confidence stuff never drives autonomous execution.

If something wrong gets learned, you can deprecate it, reject it, or hard-delete it. There's also explicit "avoid" rules you can set.

Old patterns naturally fade — retrieval is recency-weighted, so stuff that isn't reinforced drops in rank over time. There's also a lifecycle cleanup that prunes stale records.

And even with all that, safety gates still apply. The system won't act on weak evidence — below a confidence threshold it just asks you instead of guessing.

so drift is real, but it's bounded by decay + pruning + manual overrides. If you keep making the same mistake though, yeah, it'll learn that too. That's the honest tradeoff.