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Your agent’s confidence score is measuring the wrong thing

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Confidence scores tell you how sure the last model was. They tell you nothing about the scraper three hops back that mangled the table, or the ingest model that hallucinated a date. The final model has no idea, and its confidence is high anyway — that’s the failure mode. What I think we actually ne…

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  1. 2026-08-31 19:03 · r/AI_Agents
    Your agent’s confidence score is measuring the wrong thing

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