AI can’t watch for signals

Working with AI tools makes this obvious. The more input I give, the bigger the output gets.

But what I actually want is short and crisp. When I ask a peer for their opinion, I usually don’t want the five minute explanation. I want their 30 second take. If that resonates good or bad, we can go deeper.

The problem is AI can’t read signals until it’s done with its response.

When a person rambles, you can interrupt. “Wait, what did you mean by that?” They rewind to that specific moment. You probe where it matters.

AI doesn’t let you probe mid-stream. You either get everything dumped at once, or when you as for a concise version you get the compressed version with no way back to the reasoning.

That’s why I end up asking twice. But now if I want to understand why it suggested something, I have to dig through that first wall of text.

Conversations with humans lets you navigate. AI makes you choose between getting lost in details or flying blind without them.