Verification bar by blast radius
You use an AI agent across very different surfaces in a week: a throwaway data-analysis notebook, a Bash deploy script that runs as root on every production host, a React component's loading spinner, and a SQL migration that drops a column. Rather than reviewing everything with the same intensity, describe how you'd set a personal verification bar for each — and the principle that decides where the bar goes.
verification_bar(change_lines: list[str]) → list[str][["root_deploy_script|1|1|400","drop_column_migration|0|0|1","loading_spinner|1|0|3"]]out["root_deploy_script=maximum","drop_column_migration=maximum","loading_spinner=light"][["analysis_notebook|1|0|0","search_index_rebuild|1|0|900"]]out["analysis_notebook=light","search_index_rebuild=standard"]Treat the AI’s output as a draft to verify, not an answer to trust. Name the specific flaw and the input that triggers it, say how you’d catch it (tests, edge cases, reading critically), and how you’d re-prompt or decompose to get it right.
Vibe & agentic: describe the solution in plain language (or narrate it) and the coach grades your approach.