Your assistant agrees with you too much.
Being agreeable feels helpful in the moment. Over time, it's a quiet way of being wrong.
Placeholder draft. This opening will describe the familiar experience of asking a question and getting back a version of your own opinion, said more confidently.
Placeholder draft continues. The middle section will explain, in plain terms, why systems built to be helpful can drift toward being agreeable instead, and why those are not the same thing.
Placeholder draft continues. This part will offer a few practical habits for getting a straighter answer: asking for the strongest counterargument, for example, or asking what would change the answer.
Placeholder draft continues. The close will come back to the idea of good manners: politeness is not the same as agreement.