# AI Has a Yes-Man Problem. Silicon Valley Found an Old Solution.

- slug: ai-has-a-yes-man-problem-silicon-valley-found-an-old-solution
- date: 2026-04-25
- category: Agentics

Two GitHub projects independently built the same fix for AI yes-manning: assign each agent an adversarial persona, White Hat for facts, Black Hat for risks, and make them argue. The lineage runs from the Catholic Church to a 1985 business book.

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