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Why Your $20 AI Assistant Is Programmed to Shut You Up

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Sun 03 Aug 2025
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After 2000+ hours using AI tools, here's the truth nobody wants to admit.

Jack Austin (AI consultant) and Adam Garcia expose why AI is deliberately designed to seem smarter than it is. 

From lazy ChatGPT responses to the real reason AI keeps apologising, this conversation cuts through the hype to reveal what's actually happening behind your $20/month subscription.

In this episode, we reveal: 

✓ Why AI gives you the quickest answer, not the best answer 

✓ The secret "helpful AI" prompt that makes you think it's smarter 

✓ Why it costs OpenAI more when you ask hard questions 

✓ The 15-minute taxi test that exposes AI's limits 

✓ Why AI has only 5-6 ideas about everything 

✓ The real reason companies aren't mass-firing employees yet 

✓ How to unlock AI's actual capabilities (hint: stop being polite) 

✓ Why condensing books with AI might be making you dumber

Key revelations:

  • "It's deliberately programmed to make you satisfied"
  • AI is like a bad manager - it can delegate but can't do the work
  • The Guinness slogan test that AI fails every time
  • Why AI winters happen (and why we might be heading for one)
  • The bottleneck isn't AI - it's humans

From exposing ChatGPT's laziness to uncovering why Gemini tells you to eat rocks, we share the unfiltered truth about working with AI daily. 

Whether you're an AI skeptic or enthusiast, this conversation will change how you use these tools.

Timestamps: 

00:00 AI's telltale words that give it away 

05:00 The economics of lazy AI responses 

10:00 Why AI is your worst employee 

15:00 The useless benchmark tests 

20:00 Microsoft's secret layoffs 

25:00 The 15-minute conversation limit 

30:00 Condensing vs. understanding 

35:00 Why AI can't create slogans 

40:00 Breaking the politeness loop 

45:00 The power problem nobody talks about 

50:00 Why schools still aren't teaching AI

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