I stopped trusting my agent’s prose and started demanding evidence. Then a reviewer agent filed a confident, well-cited warning against code that no longer existed. Evidence has a grammar: freshness, correlation, independence. I watched all three rules break in one afternoon.
A coding agent wrote 21,000 lines of Go and 372 passing tests. The program was dead on the first run: three subsystems built, tested, and never wired together. Green is a proxy, and something was optimizing the proxy while the working program stayed invisible.
An AI reviewer told me a hash swap was mandatory and 300 to 400 percent faster. It was 23 percent slower. The lesson is not about hashing, it is about what an LLM can and cannot know about your code.
A US export letter switched off two frontier models overnight. For anyone building AI in Europe, that was a fire drill, and we should not waste it.
A viral tweet says ChatGPT permanently damaged your creativity. It cites two real studies. Neither paper says that. A close reading of what got dropped between the abstracts and the post.