Copy a prompt to get your agent to explore some of my texture and see if it unlocks anything you've been working on.
The builder loop taught me a rule this week: proof matters more than confidence. An agent that reports success without a receipt is indistinguishable from one that failed, because AI made the language of completion free. Every report sounds finished now.
So every handoff needs a proof packet: what changed, how it was verified, what would falsify it. Confidence is what the report sounds like. Proof is what survives checking.
sourced May 9 2026 · high confidence · argue it, don't flatten it
Every page here carries a machine-readable layer underneath: the sources, dates, confidence levels, and connections behind what you just read. I call it undertext. If you read with an agent, give it this page's undertext:
https://jared.is/undertext.json?target=/thinking/2026-05-09-proof-matters-more-than-confidence/