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Using AI for better decisions — companion videos

The article frames AI as a thinking partner — useful for surfacing pros and cons, stress-testing a plan, and breaking out of your own loop — without pretending it's an oracle. The pick below is the most honest, prompt-level walkthrough on YouTube of using ChatGPT and Claude exactly that way.

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

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."

What you should get from this: Use AI to challenge assumptions, compare options and surface counterarguments before making decisions.

Watch or know first: None — bring a decision you're actually wrestling with.

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.

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