Confidently wrong
“My AI states things that turn out to be false”
Fluent prose and verified fact feel identical when you read them. These techniques force the difference into the open — grounding, labeling, and proof before any claim of success.
Which version of it is yours?
- Declared Success Without Proof — “done, everything works” — then you check, and the tests were never run
- Ground It or Label It — every sentence sounds equally certain, and you can’t tell which ones it made up