5 Ways You're Sabotaging Your AI Output

5 Ways You're Sabotaging Your AI Output

August 24, 2026 · 26 min

About this episode

Sam and Katy discuss five common habits that sabotage AI output.

Most people using AI regularly have no idea they're making these mistakes, because none of them come with a warning. In this episode, Sam and Katy break down five habits that quietly sabotage AI output: an AI that agrees too easily, copy-pasted output that doesn't sound like you, chats that run too long, bloated files, and prompts too vague to work with. You'll learn: Why AI agreeing with you almost every time isn't confirmation, it's a design choice Why copying AI's first draft costs you more than it saves What a chat's memory loses the longer a conversation runs What a bloated file in your project folder costs you without you noticing

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