AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating

AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating

October 30, 2025

Everyone's using AI wrong. Including me, until last month.

We ask AI to write emails, generate reports, create content. But that's like using a supercomputer as a typewriter. The real breakthrough happened when I flipped my entire approach.

AI's superpower isn't creation. It's consumption.

The creation trap

Here's how most people use AI:

"Write a blog post about engineering leadership"

"Generate code for this feature"

"Create a summary of this meeting"

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