Confidence Plateau
The Confidence Plateau is like using a GPS that always tells you you're on the right path even when it's leading you off a cliff; because the technology hides your mistakes, you feel like an expert driver while your actual ability to navigate on your own slowly disappears.
A phenomenon where AI-assisted workflows mask the small, iterative errors that typically force a user to refine their skills, leading the user to overestimate their proficiency because they are no longer receiving the immediate, corrective feedback loops necessary for genuine mastery.
The Dunning-Kruger Peak turned structural: because AI hides the failures that used to calibrate a professional, users mistake the tool's competence for their own and accumulate Comprehension Debt they cannot see until something breaks. (C4AIL.)