Law 49 · Trust & Coordination

Don't Let the Author Be the Judge

The thing that made it shouldn't grade it.

The principle

Without an external signal, a model mostly fails to self-correct its own reasoning, and often makes correct answers worse by second-guessing them. The model that produced a flawed plan is the same one judging it, with the same blind spots. Real correction needs an outside signal: a tool result, a test that runs, a different model. 'Reflect and try again' on the same model with no new information is theater.

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