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Blog post argues LLM-generated confidence scores shouldn't be trusted by AI agents

A technical blog post examines the common practice of AI agent designers asking large language models to output a numeric confidence or probability score alongside their answers. The author argues there is no sound basis for trusting these numbers, contrasting them with how a human forecaster's confidence is grounded in historical data and a consistent updating process.