AI should only run as fast as we can catch up
December 10, 2025
Verification Engineering is the next Context Engineering
AI can only reliably run as fast as we check their work. It’s almost like a complexity theory claim. But I believe it needs to be the case to ensure we can harvest the exponential warp speed of AI but also remain robust and competent, as these technologies ultimate serve human beings, and us human beings need technology to be reliable and accountable, as we humans are already flaky enough 😉
This brings out the topic of Verification Engineering. I believe this can be a big thing after Context Engineering (which is the big thing after Prompt Engineering). By cleverly rearranging tasks and using nice abstractions and frameworks, we can make verification of AI performed tasks easier and use AI to ship more solid products the world. No more slop.
Source: AI should only run as fast as we can catch up · Higashi.blog
Interesting thoughts on the role of software engineers when building complex systems with large language models, introducing the idea of verification engineering.
