http://programmer.ie/tags/fan-out/ Recent content in Fan-Out on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:00:23 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/applied-ai/23-chapter/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:00:23 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/applied-ai/23-chapter/ <p><em>Part 5 — More Intelligence Is Not Automatically Better</em></p> <h2 id="three-reviewers-one-paragraph">Three reviewers, one paragraph</h2> <p><strong>Constructed scene.</strong> Three reviewers receive the same versioned paragraph and the same source pack. Each writes a proposal. Every proposal is collected before any is revealed.</p> <p>Contrast that with a second procedure: show the second reviewer the first answer and ask for agreement. The second process costs less and runs faster. It also sounds more confident, while answering a different experimental question. Agreement after exposure cannot distinguish shared insight from shared influence — which is why the blind collection exists first, and why the next four chapters need it before they ask whether extra candidates help.</p>