Peter Vander Wall argues current AI can't replace human teams because it produces shallow, unengaging content that feels too perfect yet empty. Treat it like a dumb intern: useful only for specific tasks with heavy direction, where it can actually speed up work.
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AI cannot replace your whole team. It's just not smart enough for that. Like, I could scroll Instagram for like five minutes and I could find a dozen videos that were either scripted using ChatGPT or they were edited using some shitty AI software that doesn't understand the video. Like, these videos, they stand out because they suck. Like, they're not engaging, they're not interesting, and they don't even really make sense. Like, they're almost too perfect, yet too shallow. There's none of those errors and that depth and that kind of. Just the human touch. And this goes for written content too. Like, it's really obvious when it's written by AI versus a human. But when AI gets really powerful is when it's in the hands of somebody who understands that it's basically just a dumb intern. Like, if you can put that frame on it, then you realize, okay, I need to give it very specific tasks. I need to give it a lot of direction. But if I do those two things, it's going to get the job done faster than any human ever possibly could.