You asked something. The answer came back polished. Later you found out it was wrong. A statistic that doesn't exist. A citation to a paper nobody wrote. A confident summary of a document that says the opposite. The frustrating part isn't the mistake. It's that nothing in the reply looked like a mistake. No hedge. No wobble. No visible seam. That gap is the thing worth understanding. Once you see why confidence and accuracy have nothing to do with each other, you stop being surprised and st...