Verification belongs in the design
Many teams treat verification as something that happens after generation, as if it were a finishing layer applied by quality assurance. That is too late. In serious operating systems, verification should be designed into the workflow from the start. The system should know what kinds of claims require proof, what outputs need checking, and what state must be read back before the work can be called done.
Why this matters commercially
Verification is not only a technical concern. It is a business control. It protects leadership from false confidence, protects teams from wasted motion, and protects the company from polished errors that are expensive to unwind. A system that cannot distinguish between what it knows and what it has proved is not ready for serious operational responsibility.
The practical design rule
The right rule is simple: the more a downstream decision depends on an output, the more explicit the verification path should be. That may mean state checks, live reads, controlled review, or structured confirmation. But it should never mean hoping the system was probably right.