<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Verification on Alex Herrero</title><link>https://alexherrero.dev/tags/verification/</link><description>Recent content in Verification on Alex Herrero</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-US</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://alexherrero.dev/tags/verification/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Deterministic gates before the LLM-judge</title><link>https://alexherrero.dev/thoughts/deterministic-gates-before-the-judge/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://alexherrero.dev/thoughts/deterministic-gates-before-the-judge/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Gating on deterministic checks &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the LLM-judge cut my review noise roughly in half. Cheap, truthful checks first; the expensive, sycophantic one last.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>