Six Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before I Started Working Inside AI

I did not plan to work in AI. For five years I was building apps. The kind people actually download and use every day. That was the job. That was the plan. Then the industry shifted and I started paying attention to how these AI tools actually work underneath, not just what they produce on the surface. Now my job is to test AI. I talk to it, push it, try to break it, and figure out where it goes wrong. I have spent a lot of time watching AI fail in ways that look completely fine at first glance.