When you instruct an AI in English, nothing errors out or gets validated; every ambiguity is silently guessed by the model, which then hands you clean, confident garbage.
Forget a semicolon in C and the computer slaps you immediately; write prompts in English and there are no guardrails, the AI never asks what you meant, it just plays the statistical odds.
The sharpest example is 1999: two teams of actual rocket scientists at Lockheed and NASA failed to align their units, one used pound-force seconds and one newton-seconds, and a $125 million probe burned up in the Martian atmosphere.
I now stop for thirty seconds and read my own words back as if I were a literal-minded alien.
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