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AI as a Fluency Machine: What Software Engineering Taught Me About Checking a Model's Answer
Community description: A model cited a real rule and then broke it. Every citation verified. The answer was still wrong. That gap is why I stopped trusting fluency and built Nexa.
Dev.to | Sep 13, 2026 | Doby Baxter
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Code review exists because we decided, collectively, that no engineer's confidence in their own code is sufficient evidence that the code is correct. Not because anyone sat down and decided generated code deserves less scrutiny. Hallucination isn't the interesting question Most debates about AI and code ask whether the model hallucinates. Citation existence is not rule compliance. It doesn't manufacture wrong answers — wrong answers predate it by the entire history of the profession.
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