# AI interview-practice platforms create false confidence > [!quote] > "AI itself has a tendency to be [sycophantic], to tell you, 'You're doing a great job.'… you might want to create a fourth personality that is not only overtly hostile but does things that are blatantly illegal." Encouraging chatbots rehearse you against an interviewer who doesn't exist; deliberate adversarial personas (and a model willing to play them, e.g. Claude over sycophantic OpenAI models) build transferable confidence. ## Related atoms - [[3. Resources/Permanent Notes/Adversarial Practice Builds Transferable Confidence Through Worst-Case Exposure]] ## Links - [[AI-Assisted PKM Replaces Synthesis Work With the Appearance of Synthesis Work]] — same failure mode: a sycophantic model manufactures the appearance of readiness rather than real, tested competence - [[Zet · Self-verifying AI flags its own unsupported claims]] — the counter-design; a model that challenges itself instead of flattering you is what turns practice into genuine signal - [[3. Resources/MOCs/AI & the Future of Knowledge Work MOC]] — applies-in: Joins notes on AI sycophancy and career use. ## Source - [[3. Resources/Readwise/Podcasts/You Ask, I Answer AI Interview Practice Platforms|You Ask, I Answer: AI Interview Practice Platforms]]