Serguey Asael Shinder – IT Professional

For a while, the confident tone got me.

The model would answer fast and sure,
in clean, organized prose,
and I’d take the conclusion
and move on.

Then it was confidently wrong
one too many times,
and the wrongness cost me an afternoon.

So I changed one habit.

I stopped accepting the answer
and started asking for the path.
“Why this approach?”
“What are you assuming here?”
“Walk me through it step by step.”

And everything got better.

Because when it has to show the work,
I can actually check the reasoning.
The weak link I couldn’t see
in a polished conclusion
sticks out plainly
in the middle of the steps.

A wrong answer with visible reasoning
is something I can catch and fix.
A wrong answer wrapped in confidence
is just a trap with good grammar.

I don’t want the response
that sounds the most certain anymore.

I want the one
I could defend myself
if someone asked me how I got there.

So now I make it show its work.

Then I decide what to trust.

– Serguey Asael Shinder