AI is fast at gathering and structuring, and unreliable at the judgement that makes a recommendation worth acting on. Here's how strategists use it without ending up with a well-argued case for the obvious answer.
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Patin also has a AI as a Strategist role track — multi-step scenarios drawn from situations strategists actually hit, scored on judgement rather than recall.
An iPhone update, a developer-productivity report, a persuasion study, and an AI-detection tool landed within six weeks of each other this summer. None of them were about prompting technique — and that's the point worth noticing.
4 min readClaude's creative connectors, ChatGPT's custom instructions, and GPT-5.5's shorter answers all expanded how much you can tell an AI tool before you start. The upgrade only pays off if you fill the room.
4 min readOpenAI, NEC, and Shopify have each committed real money and structure this year to teaching people how to use AI — not to making the model smarter. Five signals from 2026 point at the same bottleneck: adoption, not access.
5 min readMcKinsey's 2026 State of AI survey found only 6% of organizations see a measurable earnings return from AI. Its fix: for every dollar spent on the tool, spend five on the people using it.
4 min readAn AI agent one-shot a working game and a NeurIPS-ready research paper. Both got rejected for the same reason: strong execution, wrong call on what to build.
5 min readMIT Sloan tested AI-generated financial advice against real outcomes and found the quality of the prompt, not the model, decided who ended up ahead. Here's the structure that closes the gap.
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