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50loyesterday at 7:54 PM0 repliesview on HN

One thing that seems under-discussed in this space is the shift from verifying programs to verifying generation processes.

If a piece of code is produced by an agent loop (prompt -> tool calls -> edits -> tests), the real artifact isn’t just the final code but the trace/pipeline that produced it.

In that sense verification might look closer to: checking constraints on the generator (tests/specs/contracts), verifying the toolchain used by the agent, and replaying generation under controlled inputs.

That feels closer to build reproducibility or supply-chain verification than traditional program proofs.