Ideas Weave Every Narrative with AI.
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.
AI-generated marketing copy is creating a trust crisis for open-source projects. When a project description feels automated, it erodes the authenticity that made open source a community-driven alternative to corporate software. The irony: AI that democratized coding is now making it harder to tell genuine effort from generated hype. The fix? Sound like a real human who built the thing.