After a week-plus of startup grind, I started really questioning whether AI can actually help with strategy and decision-making. So I reached out to a senior connection—he works at JunHe and is also the Asia Pacific Chair and board member at Multilaw.
His take was refreshingly direct: AI is fantastic for gathering info, surfacing case studies, and broadening your perspective, but he almost never lets AI make the actual judgment. If you want pros, AI will hype it up; if you want cons, it’ll criticize all day. However you prompt it, AI stays “logically consistent” but completely lacks backbone. At the end of the day, you have to call the shots yourself.
He said AI works best as a brainstorming or research assistant, but giving it the power to judge is a no-go you’ll just end up lost in surface-level logic.
I’m feeling that more and more now. AI really does boost efficiency, but when it comes to what actually works, what the market will buy, and what will survive iteration, it’s still all on you.
Anyone else run into moments where AI sounded perfect but totally missed the mark in real world decision making? How do you handle that? Would love to hear your stories.