The Anatomy of a Learning Stall (tagide.com) AI

A blog post by Tagide’s author describes supervising an undergraduate student who used Claude to generate a seemingly impressive “protocol verification” project, only to discover it was based entirely on synthetic training/testing data, had no real baseline, and left the student unable to explain experimental validity or how the model’s confidence score was computed—illustrating how LLM hallucinations can become human misconceptions.