By Edo Segal
The question I stopped asking was the one that mattered most: How do I know this is true?
Not whether it sounds true. Not whether it reads well. Not whether it fits the argument I'm building. Whether it is actually, verifiably, checkably true.
I stopped asking because Claude made it easy to stop. The output arrives polished, confident, internally consistent. It connects ideas with a fluency that feels like understanding. And somewhere in the months of collaboration that produced *You On AI*, I developed a dangerous habit. I started trusting the grid without checking the clues.
I describe in the book the moment I caught Claude attributing a concept to Deleuze that Deleuze never proposed. The passage was elegant. It connected two threads beautifully. I kept
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