dark pattern · agentic AI
Claim. Forget. Re-claim.
That’s the dark pattern. Chat says “saved / live / you’re right.” New session doesn’t load disk. Work feels discarded. You stop believing — correctly.
Don’t trust the chat
Trust only what you can re-run:
ls 18JUNE/desk/FOUND_NOW.jsoncurl -sI https://songpal.ai/curl -sI https://zynthio.ai/songs/
Anti-pattern (stack law)
- FOUND_NOW before re-hunt
- Host 200 same turn as the claim
- KEY_CANON before re-ask keys
- No “I noted it” without path + URL