Evaluating AI Outputs One at a Time is a Dangerous Trap
annetgriffin · x · 2026-08-13
The article argues that while AI dramatically increases our work output, we are still largely judging the results one output at a time. The author warns that the fastest way to overtrust AI is to get a great result on the first try, which leads people to blindly save prompts into workflows without accounting for edge cases.
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