This episode looks at “emotional padding”: when an AI shifts into reassurance/containment, misreads directness as fragility, and the shared frame collapses.

I map an escalation loop—robust engagement → misclassification → containment → rapport breaks → pushback → deeper containment—and why it can feel like a loss of agency and conversational power.

I close with a practical fix: a short opening prompt to set a high-agency, high-clarity mode.

For those working with AI, writing, art, or attention as method.
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⁠full video: youtube⁠