3 Reasons AI Is Failing: Why You're Doing It All Wrong
Everyone is shouting about a "productivity revolution." They are lying to you. They are selling you a dream of a four-hour workweek where a bot does your thinking.
It isn't happening.
The tool isn't failing. Your system is.
If you are frustrated that ChatGPT sounds like a generic corporate brochure, it’s not the model’s fault. It’s yours.
Stop looking for a "magic" prompt. Start looking at your logic.
1. Prompt Engineering is a Scam.
Stop buying "3,000+ Mega-Prompt" packs. They are garbage.
It doesn’t work that way.
The best prompt is not a prompt. It is a logic chain.
I see people writing 500-word prompts with "Act as a world-class marketer" and "Use a professional yet witty tone."
That is noise.
When you ask for "professional," you get LinkedIn cringe. When you ask for "witty," you get 1990s sitcom jokes.
The fix? Context, not adjectives.
Stop using descriptive words. Use data. Use examples. Use your own past writing.
If you are optimizing the prompt before you have the data, you are wasting your life.
The prompt is the last 5% of the work. The logic of the task is the first 95%.
2. You are Automating Mediocrity.
Speed is not the same as progress.
The world does not need more content. The world is drowning in content.
His response rate? Zero.
Efficiency is the enemy of effectiveness if you don’t have a strategy.
Stop trying to be faster. Try to be better.
3. The Context Debt.
Every time you start a new chat, you are starting from zero. You are ignoring the "Context Debt."
I see "AI Experts" bragging about how many tools they use. They have one tool for notes. One for video. One for CRM.
This is a nightmare. Your data is fragmented.
The real winners in the next two years won't be the people with the best prompts. They will be the people with the best organized private data.
The Insight: The Return of the "Human Mess."
Here is my prediction: We are heading toward the "Great Commoditization."
Soon, everyone will have access to perfect, polished, AI-generated everything. Perfect emails. Perfect code. Perfect graphic design.
When perfection becomes free, it becomes worthless.
The value is moving away from the output and back to the intent.
The CTA:
What is the one task you tried to automate that ended up taking you twice as long to fix?