Never Trust an AI That Says “I’ve Checked”
Description and use
<p>A solo builder in Japan on designing for the day updates stop: static hosting, honest missing-data labels, and two AIs researching independently</p> <h3> 1. Treating “the day I stop” as a starting assumption </h3> <p>Have you ever tried to compare two towns’ finances before an election? In Japan, local government data is not easy for citizens to read. Every municipality structures its website differently, and much of what is published comes as PDFs or tables saved as images. Before an election, I wanted to look up my own town’s policies and finances. As someone with a full-time job, though,
Problem
<p>A solo builder in Japan on designing for the day updates stop: static hosting, honest missing-data labels, and two AIs researching independently</p> <h3> 1. Treating “the day I stop” as a starting assumption </h3> <p>Have you ever tried to compare two towns’ finances before an election? In Japan, local government data is not easy for citizens to read. Every municipality structures its website differently, and much of what is published comes as PDFs or tables saved as images. Before an election, I wanted to look up my own town’s policies and finances. As someone with a full-time job, though,
Outcome
<p>A solo builder in Japan on designing for the day updates stop: static hosting, honest missing-data labels, and two AIs researching independently</p> <h3> 1. Treating “the day I stop” as a starting assumption </h3> <p>Have you ever tried to compare two towns’ finances before an election? In Japan, local government data is not easy for citizens to read. Every municipality structures its website differently, and much of what is published comes as PDFs or tables saved as images. Before an election, I wanted to look up my own town’s policies and finances. As someone with a full-time job, though,
Evidence
Never Trust an AI That Says “I’ve Checked”
- Record date: 2026-10-27T13:11:13.365Z