The Cognitive Circuit Breaker: A Systems Engineering Framework for Intrinsic AI Reliability
As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in mission-critical software systems, detecting hallucinations and ``faked truthfulness'' has become a paramount engineering challenge. Current reliability architectures rely heavily on post-generation, black-box mechanisms, such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) cross-checking or LLM-as-a-judge evaluators. These extrinsic methods introduce unacceptable latency, high computational overhead, and reliance on secondary external API calls, frequently violating standard software engineering Service Level Agreements (SLAs). In this paper, we propose the Cognitive Circuit Breaker, a novel systems engineering framework that provides ...
| Authors | Jonathan Pan |
|---|---|
| Primary category | cs.SE |
| Published | 15 April 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 15 April 2026 |
Silytics shows public metadata from arXiv and links to the original. Information may be incomplete or out of date. Last refreshed 17 October 2026. Licenses and terms of the original apply to the work itself. Not financial, legal or professional advice.