I really did not want to make this video, but my team was not using AI correctly to the point where I had to write an entire memo about it. This is the memo that I wrote. So many of you guys are using AI in ways that make you worse and you do not even realize it. And the thing is, is that people can tell when you're faking it and when it's being AI. It is not a good look. So if you do not want to get in Paris, by, I, there are three things that you should stop doing, and there's one thing I will beg you to start doing.

Number one mistake is that you are letting AI think for you. People think they're using AI to save time, but what they're actually doing is skipping the most valuable part of their work. Say, you put this in chat, GPT, you say, write me email to my boss about my team not working together. Your boss gets the email, then asks you questions about it. There's a lot of questions that they ask you that you realize you don't have the answer to. Why is that? Because you haven't actually thought through the problem, clearly enough, so that somebody else can actually help you solve it. What happened? What have you tried?

Have you thought about other ways to solve this?

What do you need from the other person?

The process of writing something and thinking through it to write it clearly is what is so

helpful about writing in general.

There's such a low barrier to entry because you can just ask Chatchipede to write something

for you that's generic.

And what it means is that it is stolen from you the biggest piece of value that you get from writing, which is that you no longer

think. And so you actually don't understand the problem well enough to stop creating it or to even

solve it. Recently, it was probably about four weeks ago, somebody from one of my departments

wrote me a memo about a problem that they had.

And it was clearly all written by AI.

And it was essentially a proposition for a new philosophy that we would have in the department.

Two things that were wrong with it is one, this memo was like eight pages long.

And I want to say that it probably could have been a half a page because it was just full of fluff and bullshit.

The second thing that was wrong with it is that it didn't name a specific solution for our company. It named a very generic solution that still needed to have a solution within it. It's like, we need to come with a philosophy for this thing. Okay, sure, we need a philosophy, but we also need to solve the problem. Now, why is that? Because AI, when you don't give enough context, which most people are pretty lazy at prompting it, will just give you generic answers. It has to level up and chunk up on the problem because it doesn't have enough context for me to chunk it down. People are so lazy using it that they don't even prompt it correctly. They don't take the time to write four paragraphs of context to even get a somewhat useful answer out of it. And so what I've realized recently is like I would rather read a rough draft or bullets or

like handwritten from a pigeon with real thinking behind it than some polished very long

eight-page memo that says literally nothing because this is not helpful.

It doesn't help us actually solve the problem.

It just looks like work. And this is what

people miss. The value of writing was never in the writing itself. It was in the process required

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