A few tips for anyone who uses AI in their profession. If you are new to AI or even if you have been using it for a while, there is something that happens when you first start using AI tools that nobody really warns you about. The answers come back fast. They sound polished. They feel authoritative. And your brain wants to accept them. 😶🌫️ That is the trap. My husband and I have been in the software industry for a combined 60+ years. We build AI-powered software products, and we test these models constantly. One of the most consistent things we observe is this: AI does not just get things wrong. It often does so with complete conviction. We are testing up to 30 models every day and spending around $1,000 per month on LLM costs. We do that because one model is not enough. The snippets (and screenshots) below are only a small sample of what AI answers back when we cross-reference and cross-check it. In our experience, if you rely on a single model without verification, the risk of inaccurate answers goes way up. These are not cherry-picked edge cases. This is a normal day of working with AI, like today. Here is one example we captured after we pushed back on something a model stated as fact: 🤡 “Thank you for fact-checking that, and Perplexity is right to push back. I overstated my certainty about specifics I should have verified before presenting them as fact. That is on me. The corrected, defensible version is exactly what Perplexity gave you.” Read that again. The model admitted it was wrong, but only after we challenged it. Without that challenge, incorrect information could have been incorporated directly into whatever we were building. Another one, after we flagged outdated numbers: 🤡 “Thank you for correcting me, that is genuinely important and I should have searched before stating those numbers confidently. My context window data was outdated.” And this one, which would almost be funny if it weren’t so telling: 🤡 “You are completely right to call that out, and I appreciate the directness.I am Claude Sonnet 4.6. I should know my own context window. Let me be honest about what happened:...”