Contrarian take: verification is a special case, the fuzzy real world needs soft-verification
tensorqt · x · 2026-11-03
tensorqt offers a self-described contrarian view: verification (as in verifiable rewards) is a special case, while the real world is much fuzzier. He argues agent systems will need soft-verification — hardening results and systems and roughly measuring the cumulative intelligence poured into that hardening — a pushback on the current RLVR/verifier orthodoxy.
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