trust paradox

[ truhst PAR-uh-doks ]noun

Almost everybody uses these tools every day, and trust in what they hand back keeps falling.

Explanation

In Stack Overflow's 2025 survey, use climbed to eighty-four percent while active distrust of the results went from thirty-one to forty-six percent in a single year. The gap between what people use and what people believe is the whole opportunity.

Related words

• verify ruthlessly — The closest thing this crowd has to a motto: use the tools hard, then check what comes back without mercy.
• confident wrongness — An answer that reads well, looks tidy, sounds certain, and is wrong.

Prompts that deal with it

• Stop It Agreeing — Make it argue against you first