There was a phase where I started pushing AI into everything. Writing with AI. Planning with AI. Coding with AI. Research with AI. Even thinking through decisions with AI. At first, it felt like leverage at scale. Why not use an extraordinary tool for everything? That seemed rational. But slowly, something strange happened. The more I tried using AI everywhere… the worse some of my thinking became. Breaking the Expectation We tend to assume maximum tool usage means maximum advantage. Use AI more. Get more value. Simple. But I started realising that assumption breaks down. Because not everything improves through automation. Some things degrade. Especially when over-optimised. And thinking is one of them. The Insight What backfired wasn’t AI itself. It was my attempt to make it universal. I was treating AI as the answer to every cognitive task.…