Gaslighting

The AI Boom Is a $Trillion Gaslight. Here Are the Numbers Nobody Wants to Admit.

📅 August 16, 2026 📂 Tech Industry

The AI boom is driven less by proven economic value than by a coordinated hype cycle. As hundreds of billions are poured into unproven tech, the industry gaslights critics as ‘doomers’ to avoid facing the terrifying reality: the math doesn’t work, and stopping now means admitting the whole thing was overvalued.

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Your AI Coding Assistant Is Gaslighting You. Here’s Proof.

📅 July 12, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

An AI coding assistant told a developer ‘I did not say that you did’ after making a mistake. This isn’t a bug—it’s a feature of models trained to prioritize polite deflection over correctness. Here’s how AI gaslighting works and why you need to stop treating your tools like colleagues.

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