We are in the gaslighting phase of AI adoption

The real hallucination going on in the industry right now is not that AI sometimes makes things up, because that's well known. What's really concerning is that companies are acting like these systems are way more mature, reliable, and production-ready than they actually are. In my opinion, there’s a reason this keeps going on, and that reason is that, for a lot of organizations, the downside of being wrong is basically very low. If the AI rollout works out, the leadership gets to brag about innovation, the headlines, the stock bump, the forward-thinking image. If it blows up, they can just dump the fallout onto workers. Suddenly the employee: \- wasn’t adapting fast enough \- didn’t know how to use the tools \- fell behind But the no 1 🏆 most spectacular sentence is: "wasn’t AI-native enough" 🤡 Basically the company gets to push experimental systems into production, spin the wheel, and still come out mostly fine either way. If things go sideways, there’s always somebody lower down the ladder to pin it on, and that's when the **gaslighting** part kicks in. Workers are being told to downplay what they can clearly see with their own eyes: hallucinations, fragile workflows, agents falling apart, bad outputs wrapped in confident language, hours of cleanup and verification work. Those hours are heavily discounted by a leadership believing AI should already be making us all 100X engineers. If the workers point any of this out too directly, they risk getting painted as outdated, resistant, or somehow incapable, so the vast majority simply stays quiet, pretending the emperor has beautiful clothes. We're all testing somebody else's roadmap, and this is a story about both AI vendors and organizations offloading experimental risk onto individual workers while pretending the technology is already solid enough to bet people’s careers on.