The last mile.

This week I sat on a panel called The Competitive Edge: Mastering Strategy and Executive Performance. An EntreBoss Hub video session for founders and operators who feel their tactics have stopped being enough. Alongside a physical preparation coach, a lead generation specialist and a business operator, moderated by Darius Chang.

The question I got at the end is one I get more than any other, and I don’t think I’ve given the same answer twice. What’s something you wouldn’t want to use AI for?

Which probably means I haven’t settled on the answer yet. There are more scenarios than any single take can cover.

Here’s what came out on the call.

First. Accountability. AI can be at the table. It can’t be in the dock. When something goes wrong, it’s my name that’s on the document (not Claude’s or Gemma’s). So anything I’ll be held responsible for, I always write the last version (or the entire thing) myself.

Second. Defensibility. Boards and regulators don’t ask what your AI thinks. They ask what YOU decided, and why. AI can inform that decision. It can’t take responsibility for it. If I can’t defend the reasoning myself, the decision isn’t mine to make yet.

Third. The human stuff. Three things I won’t hand off. Saying no. Telling the truth someone doesn’t want to hear. Thinking. AI can help me prepare for all three. It can’t do any of them.

What I noticed after the call ended was that all three answers are the same answer wearing different clothes. Accountability, defensibility, personal work. All a version of “this needs to be mine.”

The one I might add next time is learning. AI’s at its most seductive when it lets you skip the reps. The email you didn’t struggle to write is the one you didn’t learn to write. The pitch AI drafts for you is the pitch you can’t defend, because you never assembled the argument yourself. Boredom, difficulty, uncertainty. Those aren’t bugs in the process. They’re where capability comes from. If I let AI do all the hard bits, in a few years I’m someone who can’t do any of them.

So the shorthand I’m carrying into next week. Use AI for everything that’s a draft. Keep the last mile.

Still working out what else lives there.