Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One's Happy
2026-05-31
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AI lets non-experts turn out work that looks expert in fields they have never trained in -- plausible diagrams, schemas and code that hand the user a convincing impression of competence. The failure mode: people build elaborate systems, data architectures especially, that are broken in ways only a trained eye can see, with no way to tell whether the problem they're solving is real or just one the model talked them into.
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