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Consequence models: AI that knows what happens next

Community description: Coding agents can write a pull request, run the tests and fix what breaks. Yet someone still watches...

Dev.to | Oct 12, 2026 | Josh Andrews

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This post is about a kind of model we think is missing from almost every agent stack: a consequence model. Predict: the consequence model returns P(works) and the likely failure. A model that's confidently wrong is worse than no model, because people stop checking.

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