> Have you ever remarked something supply chain worries related in a system / initial prompt, then saw your agent being indefinitely paranoid about artifact signatures and hashes? Same idea. Float the idea of mistakes, it will invite the agent to run linters and maybe spin up critic subagents. Float the idea of only ever taking low-stakes hedges, it will frequently sound how confident it is in any given action, and may prompt for your approval more often. These are memes, yes, but they're not baseless. Not sure why you seemingly think they are.

Exactly, and that's the level of conversation people should be having, instead of giving it "don't fucking guess" and calling it a day.

Its just too ambiguous a construct to lead to reliable output and its an operator error.