Discernment

What this is about # Domain 1 of the Claude Certified Associate – Foundations exam is Output Evaluation and Validation. It’s worth 21% — more than any other domain on the exam. The whole domain comes down to one idea: good-looking output is not the same thing as validated output. Fluent, confident text doesn’t tell you anything about whether it’s actually correct. This post breaks down the framework for closing that gap, on purpose, instead of by accident.