The AI productivity trap nobody talks about

Okay, so I wanted to share this after my experience today. AI tools like Copilot can be incredibly helpful, but we need to watch out for the fake productivity trap. Here's what it looks like. You give AI a prompt, it gives you an answer, you try it, it doesn't quite work. So you ask again, you tweak it, you try another approach, hour goes by, and you've achieved nothing. The problem is that sometimes the right answer isn't a better prompt. It might be a completely different feature or a completely different tool, but AI sometimes fixates on the wrong feature. That's fake productivity. You feel like you're working, but you're not getting anywhere. Here's how you can avoid this trap. Use AI in two ways. Number one, use it to speed up the tools that you already master or at least you're comfortable with. And number two, you want to explore a new tool or a new feature. So say you notice Python in Excel under the Formulas tab and you're curious what it can do. Use it to poke around, see if it's worth learning more, then go and learn the fundamentals and then use AI to speed things up. Right? So notice what both of these scenarios have in common. You still learn the fundamentals because skipping them is what's going to put you in the fake productivity trap.