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Hallucination is not a temporary bug; as models grow more capable, failures become more frequent and more convincing, leading to cognitive surrender among human reviewers.
The AC/DC (Agent-Centric Development Cycle) framework introduces three stages: Guide, Verify, Solve, with zero-trust, multi-layered verification as the core.
Real-world impact: disciplined verification led to a 92% reduction in issues.
The talk exposes a central tension in building AI agents: as models become more capable, their failures become more plausible and harder to catch.
Tariq Shaukat argues that hallucination is not a temporary bug but a deepening risk, because human reviewers increasingly suffer cognitive surrender—trusting plausible but wrong outputs.
The industry has focused on generation, but the real bottleneck is verification.
The talk exposes a central tension in building AI agents: as models become more capable, their failures become more plausible and harder to catch.
Tariq Shaukat argues that hallucination is not a temporary bug but a deepening risk, because human reviewers increasingly suffer cognitive surrender—trusting plausible but wrong outputs.
The industry has focused on generation, but the real bottleneck is verification.
