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- Engineering is no longer construction: it is verification (steerlabs.substack.com)
- The "Confident Idiot" Problem: Intelligence vs. Control (2021-2026) (steerlabs.substack.com)
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Author of the "Confident Idiot" post here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46152838). After that discussion, I looked at my own agent code and realized it was 80% error handling and 20% reasoning. I was manually…
- Detecting "AI Slop" with Shannon Entropy (Python) (steerlabs.substack.com)
- The Agent Lobotomy: Inference-time verification for autonomous systems (steerlabs.substack.com)
- Prompt Engineering Is Technical Debt (steerlabs.substack.com)
- The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks (steerlabs.substack.com)
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Hey HN, I’m the author. I built Steer because I was tired of the 'Confident Idiot' problem—where agents output broken JSON or hallucinate facts, and I only find out when the app crashes. Existing tools just log the…