The book’s vocabulary

Correction

Fix the note, the summaries, the transcripts, and the documents already sent.

From The World That Agrees With You3 sections of the book2 related posts

Fixing not only the answer but what produced it: the saved note, the summaries that repeated it, the earlier chats still retrieved, and the documents already sent. Updating one row does not necessarily update the uses.

A useful saved note keeps its date and reference — “The project plan confirmed the colleague’s scheduling concern. The earlier claim of hostile intent was unsupported.” Correcting the chat does not correct documents already sent: amend the records and tell the people relying on them what changed.

Definition from The World That Agrees With You: Understanding and Managing Sycophancy in the Age of AI, by Timothy O’Brien. © 2026 Timothy O’Brien. All rights reserved.

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