Botshitting

Botshitting is sending AI-generated work you have not properly checked, do not fully understand and could not defend if somebody in the meeting leaned forward and said, “Right. Explain this bit.” It is the moment the draft puts on a blazer and gets introduced as finished work. It sits beside botsitting in the Work AI Index 2026 for a reason: people who spend hours supervising, correcting and rerunning AI eventually get tired, and the first plausible answer starts to look very attractive at 16:47 on a Thursday. Understandable, still not somebody else’s problem. The missing thinking does not vanish when the file is sent. It moves downstream to the colleague, client, teacher or official who now has to find the errors and rebuild the logic.