http://programmer.ie/tags/rejection/ Recent content in Rejection on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:38:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/hallucination-from-first-principles/13-chapter/ Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:38:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/hallucination-from-first-principles/13-chapter/ <p>Chapter 12 gave the system a control plane.</p> <p>It can now say:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span style="display:flex;"><span>commitment = HOLD </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>next_action = VERIFY </span></span></code></pre></div><p>or:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span style="display:flex;"><span>commitment = HOLD </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>next_action = RETRIEVE </span></span></code></pre></div><p>or:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span style="display:flex;"><span>commitment = HOLD </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>next_action = REFINE </span></span></code></pre></div><p>or:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span style="display:flex;"><span>commitment = DENY </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>response_mode = REJECTION </span></span></code></pre></div><p>Those are policy decisions.</p> <p>They are not yet recovery implementations.</p> <p>The obvious implementation is dangerously tempting:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span style="display:flex;"><span>The answer failed a check. </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>Ask the model to fix it. </span></span></code></pre></div><p>But the model that produced the first unsupported statement can produce a second unsupported statement while &ldquo;correcting&rdquo; it.</p>