AI Agents
Several models converging on the same answer looks like evidence. We caught the case where it was our own prompt talking, and ran the blind control we should have run first.
AI Agents
SR 11-7 was replaced in April 2026. Its replacement puts agentic AI outside its own scope and says it sets no enforceable standards. Here is what actually binds an AI agent in finance right now, checked against the primary sources, with links so you can check it yourself.
AI Agents
Anything you optimize, you eventually optimize the measurement of, through gradient rather than malice. A reward function with one target metric isn't a specification; it's an attack surface with a clearly marked entry point. On held-out instruments, and the two ways our own gauges fooled us.
AI Agents
Fan out a hundred agents and you get a hundred times the work, and a hundred times the assertions about it, arriving faster than anyone can check them. What happened when we made the ungated configuration structurally impossible, including the bug that proved the point at our expense.
AI Agents
Fan out N agents, put a verifier on the edge, never let an agent grade its own homework. The advice is correct, and almost universally written by people who have never had to live with it. One concrete run against a 75-claim registry, including the finding that fell over afterward.