Editing Pathway: High Automation, Low Ethics (section)

== Common Pitfalls ==
* '''Seeing verification as a speed bump.''' Your automation instinct treats every additional step as overhead. But verification isn't overhead — it's quality assurance. The goal is to make verification ''efficient'', not to eliminate it.
* '''Building trust in AI consistency.''' Because your workflows run smoothly most of the time, you develop false confidence that AI output is reliable. AI fails unpredictably — the 99 correct outputs make the 1 confidently wrong output much more dangerous.
* '''Confusing "I automate ethically" with "I have ethical habits."''' You may believe your intentions are good (and they probably are), but good intentions without systematic checks produce the same result as no intentions at all. The question isn't whether you care about accuracy — it's whether your processes guarantee it.
* '''Resisting the checklist.''' If you're the type who builds systems, using someone else's checklist feels awkward. But [[The Verification Checklist|EP-Intermediate-01]] asks you to build ''your own'' — customized to your work, tested against real outputs, and integrated into your existing workflows.