How do you actually check an AI before you trust it?

Today's question. When you pick up a new AI tool, how do you actually check it before you trust it? Or do you just dive in and find out the hard way?

Here is the honest version most people never do: test it on your messy real work, not the demo. Watch what it does when it does not know. Decide how you would catch a quiet, confident, wrong answer.

Today's post digs into why that habit matters: the AI skill nobody talks about. And the new field test walks you through it in four steps: The AI Evaluation Field Test.

Drop one tool you rely on and your number-one way to catch it when it is wrong.