Every AI answer you use lands somewhere: a config, a migration, a doc your teammates will trust. Shipping it unverified means its mistakes ship too — under your name. This article is the working routine I use to verify AI output before it ships: three copy-paste prompts to check AI accuracy, each doing one job, composing into a check that takes minutes, not an afternoon.
The first two — a hallucination sweep and an AI fact-checking prompt — come from earlier in this series (linked below, each with its own test run). The third — building a verification checklist sized to the stakes — is new here, tested on a booby-trapped example further down.
What does it actually take to verify AI output?
Three moves, in order, each answering a different question:
Sweep — which claims are even in here, and which look fabricated? Broad and shallow, across the whole answer.
