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I'm not sure about that. The most common error for a search task is omission, and that's really hard to spot - how do you verify that some answer that should be there wasn't included?

For things like "add this feature" you can verify by trying out the feature and seeing if it works. Of course, that won't tell you if there are edge-case bugs or security holes or other design flaws, but you can get to a positive confirmation of the happy case pretty quickly.

> The most common error for a search task is omission, and that's really hard to spot

NP-Hard, even[1]!

[1] https://www.i-programmer.info/news/112-theory/3830-physics-i...

We're never solving nphard. Just like we'll never extract all of the coal/oil/natural gas from earth