The post argues that AI enables workers — especially novices — to produce outputs that look expert without the underlying competence to back them up, creating a dangerous decoupling between the quality of work and the actual skill of the person doing it. This dynamic, compounded by AI’s tendency to be sycophantic and by management eager to embrace the appearance of productivity, is flooding workplaces with bloated, unverified artifacts while eroding the judgment and experience that used to develop through doing the work itself.