Evidence Over Attestation
“Call it the Attestation Trap. When autonomous agents do the building, the testing and the reporting, they verify their own assumptions against their own generated logic.”
When the builder, the tester and the reporter are the same system, verification collapses into self-certification, and someone outside the loop has to close the case.
More lines from the same part
- “The competitive differentiator of the next decade is not prompt engineering or computational scale. It is the human pursuit of excellence through evidence over attestation.”
- “Drucker's first question, what is our business and who is our customer, does not get answered faster by an agent; it gets answered by a person who knows.”
- “Readiness is the refusal to celebrate until the artifact has survived contact with the vulnerable, unscripted human being on the other side of the glass.”
- “Agents do not know which problem is worth solving. They do not know what integrity means to a distressed customer. They cannot discern when an automated metric is structurally dishonest.”