Not Another Magic AI Button
Most AI tools are built to replace your thinking.
We built AI:OS to scale it instead.
Strategy or Framework
When people ask, “How’s AI:OS different from [insert shiny tool that’s been promoted on Facebook this week]?” here’s the honest answer:
It’s not a black box.
Black box AI gives you content you can’t see into or improve. It spits out results, but you don’t know how it got there. And more importantly, you can’t change how it thinks.
AI:OS is a glass box. It shows its workings. You get your own prompts, your own voice system, and your own thinking embedded into how it produces. It’s you, enhanced. Not you, erased.If you’re building a brand, IP, or authority, then a magic button isn’t going to cut it.
But a working operating system that gets smarter over time? Now we’re talking.
Asset to Build
This week, build your personal AI decision checklist.
Just answer this:
- Am I using this tool to create with me or instead of me?
- Does it reflect my voice and values, or just remix someone else’s?
- If someone read what it produced, would they say, “That sounds just like INSERT YOUR NAME”?
If the answer’s no, it’s not a system. It’s a slot machine.
🐴Disaster Farm Update
Renoir got his own back this week.
After some lovely morning horsey games, he waited until I wasn’t looking, then moved half a hoof sideways and knocked me flying.
I landed with the grace of a bin bag full of yoghurt.
The cats didn’t even flinch. Bonica gave me a pity sniff. Don, the head cockerell, looked genuinely impressed.
Moral of the story: Trust the process, not the horse.
Things My Authors Ask
One of our authors this week asked, “Isn’t using AI cheating?”
No.
Cheating is outsourcing your book to a tool that doesn’t know who you are, what you stand for, or how you sound.
Using AIOS is like hiring a co-pilot. But you still gotta fly the plane.
📣 COME TALK TO US ON LINKEDIN
We’re sharing exactly how to turn clever ideas into strategic assets:
- Is AI sharpening your leadership – or just stroking your ego? → https://shorturl.at/AHJp5
- What if your best ideas are replacing you? → https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/signals-system-when-smart-people-get-replaced-own-ideas-jenkins-lebxf/
TL;DR
Black box AI tools might save time, but they cost you something far more important: originality.
If you’re a smart person with something real to say, don’t outsource your thinking.
Build a system that makes it stronger.
Sign-off
Thanks for reading Stuff I Tell Smart People.
If this made you think (or roll your eyes in a productive way), hit reply — I always read them.
— Debbie
PS: I’m running a free live session on Wednesday, June 4th, 2025:
“AIOS for Authors: How to Work with AI Without Losing the Plot.”
You’ll leave with your own AI Operating System — or at least the beginnings of one.
Join us here → Here’s the sign-up form
And yes, it’s for people who overthink. You’re welcome.
