My mother used to sit in the passenger seat with a map unfolded on her lap, tracing the route with her finger, and somehow, my parents almost never took a wrong turn. To this day, I have no idea how they did it.

And yet today, people get lost with GPS.

I'm starting to see the exact same pattern with AI.

I've been working alongside AI for almost two years now. But the last 19 days have been more intense than anything before.

And the deeper you go down this rabbit hole, the easier it is to develop tunnel vision.

Everyone knows AI hallucinates. That's not news anymore.

But what you only truly understand after working with it for hours at a time: it's not really about the hallucinating.

The real problem is that it forgets context. Completely. In the middle of an ongoing task. And it stays just as confident as before, as if nothing happened.

Today I spent hours on a technical problem. OpenClaw, Docker, Chromium, and config files. The AI was right there with me, like always: clear, solution-oriented, certain.

Every response sounded like the final answer. You copy the command into the terminal, wait, check, and type the next one. Brain off, trust on.

After almost an hour and what felt like seven steps with commands that stretched across two full screens, I was back exactly where I started. Same version. Same setup.

I asked the AI: "Why are we back here?"

The response: "Everything is running again. What's your problem?"

It had completely forgotten what our original task was. Not partially. Entirely. The context was gone, and it hadn't even noticed.

This isn't a one-off. It's a pattern.

And that's where the real danger lies. Not that AI is bad. It's powerful. Genuinely powerful.

But when you trust it too much, when you switch your brain off and just copy commands one after another, you lose exactly what you need to steer it properly.

Just like GPS. It's a fantastic tool. But if you never think for yourself about where you actually want to go, you'll eventually end up driving in circles.

AI needs a captain. Someone who keeps the overview when the model loses it. Someone who remembers where we started, even when the AI has forgotten.

My mother used to sit in the passenger seat with a map unfolded on her lap, tracing the route with her finger, and somehow, my parents almost never took a wrong turn. To this day, I have no idea how they did it.

And yet today, people get lost with GPS.

I'm starting to see the exact same pattern with AI.

I've been working alongside AI for almost two years now. But the last 19 days have been more intense than anything before.

And the deeper you go down this rabbit hole, the easier it is to develop tunnel vision.

Everyone knows AI hallucinates. That's not news anymore.

But what you only truly understand after working with it for hours at a time: it's not really about the hallucinating.

The real problem is that it forgets context. Completely. In the middle of an ongoing task. And it stays just as confident as before, as if nothing happened.

Today I spent hours on a technical problem. OpenClaw, Docker, Chromium, and config files. The AI was right there with me, like always: clear, solution-oriented, certain.

Every response sounded like the final answer. You copy the command into the terminal, wait, check, and type the next one. Brain off, trust on.

After almost an hour and what felt like seven steps with commands that stretched across two full screens, I was back exactly where I started. Same version. Same setup.

I asked the AI: "Why are we back here?"

The response: "Everything is running again. What's your problem?"

It had completely forgotten what our original task was. Not partially. Entirely. The context was gone, and it hadn't even noticed.

This isn't a one-off. It's a pattern.

And that's where the real danger lies. Not that AI is bad. It's powerful. Genuinely powerful.

But when you trust it too much, when you switch your brain off and just copy commands one after another, you lose exactly what you need to steer it properly.

Just like GPS. It's a fantastic tool. But if you never think for yourself about where you actually want to go, you'll eventually end up driving in circles.

AI needs a captain. Someone who keeps the overview when the model loses it. Someone who remembers where we started, even when the AI has forgotten.