A hypothesis is a liability.

· Bits and Bobs 8/24/26
  • A hypothesis is a liability.
    • If you act like your hypothesis is right, but it turns out to be wrong, you are accidentally building things that don't ground truth.
    • If you have the wrong grounding then no amount of tokens will come to the right conclusion.
    • Seek and destroy ungrounded hypotheses in your system.
      • Claude seems to have started not ground-truthing its own hypotheses when coding, which leads to significant wasted effort, or worse.

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