#verification
12 nodes in the Atlas
- 002When Uncertainty Pays YouConvexity
Survivable exposure, payoff curvature and a worthwhile price require separate judgments.
- 003The Most Valuable Thing an AI Can Say Is "I Don't Know"The Invisible Frontier
A refusal becomes useful when its error rate, coverage and next owner are defined.
- 005Cheap to Make, Expensive to CheckThe Verification Economy
An offload saves work only if generation, relevant checking, and likely repair together cost less than producing an equally reliable result by hand.
- 006The Reverse CentaurWho Really Decides
Human approval can conceal a reverse centaur when the people checking a campaign cannot challenge the objective it optimizes.
- 103Verifiable Space: Where the Answer Can Be Checked
Verifiable space is work where a valid check can evaluate a proposed answer within the available budget and time.
- 113The Jagged Frontier: The Edge You Can't See Until You're Past It
A jagged frontier is an uneven boundary of model capability. Similar-looking tasks can produce opposite effects from AI assistance.
- 115The Base Rate Trap: When the False Alarm Rate Decides
A rare event can leave most alerts false even when a detector rejects 99% of non-events. Choosing a usable threshold also requires recall, investigation capacity and the costs of both errors.
- 116Metacognitive Demand: The Load Shifts from Doing to Judging
Delegating production can leave evaluation demands that exceed the operator's knowledge. A marketer may judge a headline yet need help testing an analytics tag.
- 120The Generation-Verification Gap: When the Right Answer Loses
A correct answer can be present among generated candidates while the selector returns a wrong one. Measuring that loss requires the same tasks, candidate sets and correctness standard.
- 121The 70% Problem: Fast to Prototype, Hard to Finish
A fast prototype can leave production work that requires different checks and expertise. Addy Osmani's 70/30 is a field heuristic, not a measured share of a job.
- 122The Three Lines Model: Independence Is a Role, Not a Headcount
The Three Lines Model distinguishes management's action and challenge from internal audit's independent assurance to the governing body. Rechecking your own decision cannot create that independence.
- 126Deskilling: The Skill That Catches the Error Is the One Automation Quietly Takes
Deskilling is a loss of unaided capability. Automation can remove opportunities to practise while leaving difficult monitoring and recovery tasks to people. Whether that capability has changed needs evidence.