AI engineering glossary · Agents tools MCP
What is self-critique?
Self-critique: A step in which a model is asked to judge its own draft against a checklist or criteria, then improve it. It is cheap to add, but a model can miss its own errors, so it works best with concrete rules or external checks such as tests.
Self-critique: an example
Draft an SQL query, then ask the model: 'Check this for missing WHERE clauses and syntax errors', then produce a corrected version.
Related terms
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Where you learn it
Self-critique is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.