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The Gate That Stayed Silent — When a Blocker Count That Drops Reads as Improvement
Community description: In the last article, I argued that the safety contract should move out of the LLM critic and into...
Dev.to | Aug 31, 2026 | Debashish Ghosal
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A deterministic gate is more reliable than an LLM critic. The fix is a gate canary — a deterministic, zero-LLM-cost health check that runs before every eval sweep and asserts each gate still fires on its canary bad plan. Every deterministic safety gate needs a canary that fires independently of the gate's normal operation.
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