I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here's What I Learned

37 minutesBeginnerPractitionerAli AbdaalAI Productivity

Ali Abdaal. Lays out the same kinds of patterns the article uses — challenge prompts ("give me the steelman counterargument," "give me a scathing critique"), explanatory theories, and the Solomon method (have the AI play your 90-year-old self) — and is unusually clear about where the AI stops being useful (mental health, accountability). Pairs well with the article's insistence that the value is in better questions and tradeoff-mapping, not "tell me what to do."

AI Expert note

He's candid about where AI stopped being useful — mental health and accountability — and that boundary is as much the point as the prompts; it matches the article's thinking-partner-not-oracle framing.

What you should get from this

Use AI to challenge assumptions, compare options and surface counterarguments before making decisions.

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None — bring a decision you're actually wrestling with.

Last reviewed: May 18, 2026

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