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NoCursor · 28 Feb 2026

He just implicitly trusts what the model tells him

apical_dendrite on Hacker News

In the thread “Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension”

Got in the way: Implicit trust in model output without deep system understanding or manual testing.

… He's moving so fast that he's not bothering to learn how the system actually works. He just implicitly trusts what the model tells him. I'm trying to get him to do end-to-end manual testing using the system itself (log into the web app in a local or staging environment and go through the actions that the user would go through), he just has the AI generate tests and trusts the output. …