http://programmer.ie/tags/perturbation-testing/ Recent content in Perturbation Testing on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:35:46 +0100 http://programmer.ie/post/trendslop/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:35:46 +0100 http://programmer.ie/post/trendslop/ <h2 id="-1--tldr">🧩 1. TLDR</h2> <blockquote> <p><strong>AI doesn&rsquo;t just hallucinate. Sometimes it gives answers that are fluent, safe… and completely useless.</strong></p></blockquote> <p>Most discussions about AI failure focus on hallucination:</p> <ul> <li>making things up</li> <li>getting facts wrong</li> <li>fabricating sources</li> </ul> <p>That&rsquo;s real. It matters.</p> <p>But it&rsquo;s not the most dangerous failure mode in production systems.</p> <p>There is a quieter one.</p> <p>A more subtle one.</p> <p>And in practice a more <em>pervasive</em> one.</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>AI systems often fail not by being wrong, but by failing to think at all.</strong></p>