3-LLM Cross-Validation: A Consensus Mechanism

3-LLM Cross-Validation: A Consensus Mechanism Introduction The most counterintuitive audit principle in the ATS-008 architecture is this: the more fluent a model's reasoning chain, the more you should suspect it was fabricated. A single LLM's verdict is, at best, an unverified witness statement. It can tell a perfectly coherent story about whether a piece of code is safe — and still be completely wrong. That is the confirmation-bias failure mode that single-model pipelines inherit silently. This post is part of the "Detective Reasoning + Behavior Logs + Technical Puzzles" series.