🥩 Meat-routing and trust erosion

It is very tempting to copy-paste LLM answers or research as is. It usually looks great.

You validate it once, twice, three times... You make a few corrections but otherwise it's good. Then you start trusting and stop validating. Essentially, you are a meat router now.

Your colleagues will eventually notice, and ask themselves a few questions:

1. Can I trust this person any more than the LLM?
2. Has this person even read that response, or just forwarded it?
3. Can't I just use the LLM myself?
4. Why should I read that wall of text when I just need a yes or no?

That is, essentially, worse than "vibe-coding" — because there's no immediate feedback like "it doesn't work." A bad LLM answer can sit in a doc or a Slack thread for weeks, quietly trusted, before anyone notices.

The fix:

1. Consider answer a draft. Never forward it right away.
2. Compress it. If you can't reduce it to 1-2 sentences, you have not processed it.
3. Claim it. Take responsibility for the answer.
4. Verify the claim. Check what matters.

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