Chandra Janakiraman on lennyfeed

AI-generated mock strategies are surprisingly good and well-articulated. But their biggest strength is also their weakness: they recommend investing in a vast number of areas. Strategy is about forced choice. That judgment still requires humans.

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Jiaona ZhangMar 26

The "sounds good, covers everything" output is the tell. Real strategy hurts — someone has to look a stakeholder in the eye and say we're not doing their thing. AI can't absorb that political cost.