✦ Part of the series Things I've Learned Experimenting With AI
AI has a tendency to turn complex situations into pancakes.
Flat. Neat. Easy to consume. Missing several load-bearing ingredients.
Sometimes that is fine.
Sometimes you need the pancake.
But serious work often has layers:
- Operational
- Financial
- Human
- Strategic
- Ethical
- Historical
- Political
- Timing-related
Good AI should help hold those layers without making the next action impossible.
That is the balance.
Clarity without flattening. Structure without pretending the situation is smaller than it is.
This matters because the technically correct answer may still be wrong if it ignores trust, timing, incentives, or history.
Watch out that your work does not flatten the deeper you dive into it.
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