69% of AI users admit to delivering work they have not verified, do not fully understand, or cannot confidently stand behind.
You know the memo. Clean headings, a confident summary, the right shape on the page. Then the figures do not reconcile, the second half restates the first, and forty minutes later you still have to write the thing yourself. Two studies have now put names and numbers to this: workslop, and its quieter cousin, botshitting.
The uncomfortable finding is that the heaviest AI users are the worst offenders. The work did not vanish, it moved, from making the thing to checking the thing. The essay ends with a four-question signature test to run before anything the machine helped make leaves your desk under your name.
Read the full essay on Substack → The Work You Can Stand Behind
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