http://programmer.ie/tags/consistency/ Recent content in Consistency on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:16:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/hallucination-from-first-principles/09-chapter/ Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:16:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/hallucination-from-first-principles/09-chapter/ <p>Chapter 8 ended with a rule:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>If a downstream decision depends on a distinction, do not discard that distinction before the decision is made.</strong></p></blockquote> <p>That rule breaks the idea of one universal hallucination score.</p> <p>A response can be well contained and still reverse a relation. It can preserve every relation and still ignore the decisive facts of the problem. It can be correct once and unstable under a harmless rephrasing. It can be perfectly repeatable and consistently wrong.</p>