Watercolor: a beam of light passes through GCO (Goal, Constraints, Output) through a magnifying glass, landing on a verified report

Day 11: How to Verify What AI Gives You

This is Day 11 of the AI Path L1→L2 Upgrade Guide, a practice article. Do Day 8 and Day 10 first. Day 10 ended with a note: description and verification are the same coin. If you can’t describe what you want, you can’t check whether you got it. I default to trusting AI output. Especially the confident ones. Well structured, clear, sounds right. Day 10 mentioned an example: I asked AI to “organize these files by category.” It sorted them alphabetically by name. The result looked organized, it just wasn’t the kind of organization I meant. At the time I thought “I need to describe it better next time,” not “let me check whether what it delivered is actually correct.” ...

2026-07-28 · 5 min · Alex Wang