Trust Boundaries: The Same Idea on Open and Closed Platforms
Fundamentum autem est iustitiae fides, id est dictorum conventorumque constantia et veritas. — Cicero, De Officiis The foundation of justice is fides — constancy and truthfulness in words and agreements. The first two posts told the story of two projects. Aristotle: Teaching AI to Reflect on Its Mistakes runs on OpenCode: three commits, done. claude-code-reflect: Same Metacognition, Different Soil runs on Claude Code: V1 through V3, hitting walls the entire way. Both projects solve the same problem: teaching AI agents to learn from mistakes and persist those lessons as durable rules. But the implementation process made me realize there’s a question more important than technology choice. When to trust AI’s judgment, and when to step in? ...