There’s a conversation happening right now that goes something like this: AI can generate code, but if it breaks, you’re stuck. You don’t understand what it wrote, you can’t debug it, and you’re worse off than when you started.
I recently listened to a podcast featuring Amanda Askell discussing Constitutional AI at Anthropic, and it sparked a thought experiment I can’t quite shake.
This post is adapted from a presentation I gave on December 12th, 2025 about AI sycophancy and its real-world consequences. I’ve converted it from slides to blog format to make it more accessible.