THE PATRIOT KID
CRAWLING. I'LL JUST
ASK CHATGPT TO FIX IT.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
CREATE INDEX ix_all ON orders
(id, name, email, date,
status, amount, notes);
This will make it 100x faster! ✨
QUERY: NOW 8X SLOWER
SERVER: UNRESPONSIVE
ME: FIRED??
WHAT DID THE AI
ACTUALLY KNOW ABOUT
YOUR DATABASE?
It predicts the next most likely word based on training data. It cannot see your schema, run your query, or check if its answer is correct.
It's a very confident guesser.
Confidence ≠ Correctness.
NEVER AS THE FINAL WORD.
VERIFY EVERYTHING.
WHEN IT MATTERS — CALL
A REAL IT PRO.
He just doesn't trust it alone.”
🤖 What Is AI Hallucination?
AI hallucination is when a language model (like ChatGPT) confidently states something that is completely wrong, made up, or nonsensical. It's not a bug — it's a fundamental property of how these models work.
The model doesn't retrieve facts. It predicts statistically likely sequences of text. Sometimes that prediction is accurate. Sometimes it fabricates:
- Fake citations and research papers
- Wrong function names and API calls
- SQL that destroys data instead of fixing it
- Legal or medical advice that is dangerously wrong
- Confident-sounding nonsense passed off as fact
✅ When You Can Trust AI
AI is genuinely useful — when you know its limits:
Good uses: Drafting emails, summarizing long documents, explaining concepts, generating boilerplate code to be reviewed, brainstorming options.
Verify before using: Any specific fact, command, API call, legal or medical claim, or anything that will run on a production system.
Never blindly trust: Database commands on live data, network configuration, security configurations, financial or legal decisions.
🚫 The Rule Chuck Lives By
After 27+ years in IT, Chuck uses AI tools every single day. Here's the rule:
AI IS A JUNIOR EMPLOYEE.
REVIEW EVERYTHING IT DOES.
A junior employee might write a decent first draft. You wouldn't let them push code to production unsupervised or make architectural decisions without review.
AI broke your database? Chuck fixes it.
Got an IT problem worthy of a comic? Tell Chuck about it.