Your AI Opinion Needs Experience
Live from St. Paul MN
The Drip: AI’s capability overhang
Why leaders need firsthand AI experience
Building vs. planning: two different approaches
How changing models change your workflow
Research blind spots and AI gaslighting
Plausible answers and strategic judgment
Trust, risk, and accountability
Finding useful business applications
Building your own informed opinion
Episode 24: Your AI Opinion Needs Experience
How much of your opinion about AI comes from using it? Recording together in St. Paul, Justin and Kellan compare the habits they’ve changed through hands-on work: where they give agents more room, where they stay methodical, and what still needs their own judgment.
The Drip:
- Ethan Mollick’s “The Overhang” and the gap between AI capability and everyday use.
- Why a successful demo and a dependable business process are different things.
- Building an informed opinion through actual work, not just headlines.
Inside The Bottle:
- A reversal in approach: more room for agents when building, more deliberate research when developing strategy.
- Asking for competing points of view before deciding what you think.
- Research blind spots—and the value of reading beyond an AI-generated answer.
- Why growing confidence in AI does not remove responsibility for checking its work.
Mentioned in the conversation:
- https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-overhang
- https://tinybottleai.com/ai-pathfinder — answer 10 questions about your business to request a free, human-prepared Pathfinder Brief on where to focus and what to do first.
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