Why AI 'hallucination' is like a new hire faking competence
When people say AI hallucinates, think of it like an eager new hire who wants to impress you and will just do things to get the job done without considering that it might break trust. AI loves to fake it till they make it, and your job is to make sure that it doesn't — or at least to minimize that as much as possible. The mental model matters because it shifts your posture from 'trust the output' to 'verify the output,' which is the right default when working with AI agents on high-stakes deliverables like client proposals.
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