---
id: "quote-fluency-competence"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["00:08:34"]
tags: ["evaluation"]
related: ["concept-confidently-wrong", "claim-fluency-not-competence"]
speaker: "Nate B. Jones"
speakers: ["Nate B. Jones"]
sources: ["s42-job-market-split"]
sourceVaultSlug: "s42-job-market-split"
originDay: 42
---
# Fluency is not competence

> 'The skill here is resisting the temptation to read fluency by the AI as competence or correctness.'
> — [[entity-nate-b-jones]]

## Why it matters

A warning against the psychological trap of trusting well-written AI output without verifying its factual accuracy. Anchors [[concept-confidently-wrong]] and [[claim-fluency-not-competence]], and is the entry point to the discipline of [[concept-evaluation-quality-judgment]].