Why I Built Opposition Into My AI Council

Short summary

The author explains why they built opposition into their AI council: a single model that proposes, reviews, and verifies its own work can improve an answer without escaping the original framing. Drawing an analogy to the developer-QA relationship, they designed a four-lens review round (System Thinker, Critical Reviewer, Simplifier, Alternatives Explorer) to challenge assumptions the primary architect might never question.

• •Self-review in AI agents can refine answers without questioning the original problem framing
• •A developer-QA analogy explains why independent critique surfaces different failure modes
• •Four review lenses—System Thinker, Critical Reviewer, Simplifier, Alternatives Explorer—prevent single-perspective dominance

Generated with AI, which can make mistakes.