The AI Activity Trap
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Episode 19: The AI Activity Trap
Justin and Kellan start with Gemini moving into Chrome, then use a simple flight-booking example to ask the harder question: when does AI activity actually make a workflow better? They work through the gap between access and outcomes, why slower adoption can be smarter, and how strategy, ownership, and human judgment keep capable tools pointed at useful work.
The Drip:
- Gemini Spark can browse Chrome using a person's existing accounts and logged-in context.
- Distribution inside a tool people already use may matter more than another standalone AI destination.
- Being able to hand off a task such as booking a flight does not automatically make the experience better.
Inside The Bottle:
- Seats, prompts, tokens, and visible activity do not prove that a workflow or its outcome improved.
- Small, incremental deployments make it easier to discover missing context, rules, exceptions, and review checkpoints.
- A useful AI strategy clarifies what the company is trying to do, what it will not do, and who owns the result.
- The best automation boundary often appears where repetitive steps end and human judgment begins.
- The practical question is not only whether AI can do the work, but what becomes different when it does.
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