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I Stopped Taking AI Advice Seriously, and It Helped

Jaideep Parashar on April 18, 2026

I’ve been using AI for months now. Not casually — seriously. And I’ve started noticing something uncomfortable. The Observation The more I used A...
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Elmar Chavez

And that is the trap. Been using AI for quite some time now and I can say these are dangerous. It agrees with you the more you add prompts or questions. People will soon realize that it is just a puppet trained to spurt out words out of probability. They don't have their own mind, they only compute. What's worse, ambiguous problems with complex solutions would take more than all of Earth's resources to be able to solve these problems we humans solve everyday.

AI is helpful but only as a tool. Trusting it fully is asking for future disasters to come.

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Jaideep Parashar

That’s a valid concern, and honestly, a healthy one.

AI does tend to agree and generate plausible answers, not necessarily true ones. It doesn’t “understand” like humans, it predicts. That’s why blind trust is risky.

The practical balance is this:

  1. Use AI for speed and exploration
  2. Keep humans responsible for judgment and decisions

So yes.

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Deepak Parashar

Use AI but don't let AI use you.

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Hesham

I think even at the age of AI, every developer who is learning anything in IT needs a mentor, as many people and successful programmers have mentioned.

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Jaideep Parashar

Absolutely, I agree.

If anything, AI makes mentorship more important, not less. Tools can generate answers, but mentors help with judgment, direction, and learning what matters. That guidance is hard to replace.

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Hesham

Correct, I like the way that you explained it.

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Yasin Islam

I suppose its true in terms of code too, seeing so many folks vibe code - I had eventually decided to see how it is and I vibe coded hard.

But that actually instead of making me addicted to this feeling of building anything I can imagine, it instead made me miss the feeling of just sitting down, having my own logic and writing it down.

and just like you said what you do --> instead of asking what you do, you ask what you are not seeing. Started implementing AI like that and honestly, feels so much more refreshing.

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Jaideep Parashar

That’s a wonderful insight.

What you’re describing is moving from using AI to generate toward using AI to challenge your thinking, and that’s a much richer relationship with the tool.

I especially like “ask what you are not seeing.” That turns AI from autocomplete into a thinking partner. Very powerful shift.

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Jaideep Parashar

The more I used AI for advice, the more confident it sounded.

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Thabelo Ranoto

Wanna bet this was written using Ai [ how funny would that be ] jk

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Jaideep Parashar

Yes, we are an AI company and research the impact of AI on society.

I’d say the real goal isn’t whether something involved AI or not, but how responsibly and thoughtfully AI is used. Our view has always been to encourage a sustainable balance, using AI to support thinking and productivity, while keeping human judgment, originality, and accountability at the centre. That’s where the best outcomes usually come from.