[[Smarter Through AI collaboration ]]
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Stop outsourcing your brain to AI
→ Are you creating AI dependency or partnership?
I remember that exact moment vividly.
Sitting in my home office at 5 AM, surrounded by crumpled notes and empty coffee cups. The cursor blinked mockingly at me as I cycled through the same mediocre writing for the hundredth time.
Then something shifted. Instead of asking “What should this headline say?” I found myself thinking: “What if I taught AI to think like me about headlines?”
That single question changed everything.
Here’s the contradiction most people miss: The smarter you make AI, the smarter you become.
Are you treating AI like a magic black box? ——— Type in a request, get an output, move on.
But every time you outsource thinking without teaching your expertise, you’re creating dependency that makes you weaker, not stronger.
This insight flips the script: ——— Creating AI assistants forces you to externalize your expertise. And externalization is where real learning happens.
When I built that headline assistant, I had to dig deep into what I actually knew about effective headlines. Patterns I’d been following unconsciously suddenly became conscious frameworks.
This wasn’t just prompt engineering. This was knowledge archaeology.
May I introduce my current AI team: ——— → “Data” - My program director (47 conversations, 317 messages in 45 days)
→ “Hooky” - My writing coach (115 conversations, 323 messages)
→ “Five” - My messaging strategist (25 conversations, 123 messages)
(+37 more)
Each assistant makes me better at what I do while amplifying my expertise.
Your 10-minute first step: ———
- Pick one task you repeat weekly
- Write down everything you know about doing it well
- Create a basic AI assistant with these insights
- Use it once
- Iterate
This way you’re not just building AI tools—you’re building thinking partners.
Your expertise deserves better than being trapped in your head. With creating your AI assistants you escape that trap.
Ready when you are … shoot me a DM or comment “A-Team”
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Posted on LINKEDIN on 2025-06-06_Fri
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