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The Jurassic Park Problem
How Not to Use AI - 7 Mistakes Even Daily Users Make
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." Just because AI can do something, doesn't mean it should.
After two years of daily use, here are the 7 mistakes even daily AI users make - and the small fixes that 10x your output.
- The settings 90% of users have never opened - and what to switch off today
- Why "try again" is the worst thing you can type when AI gets it wrong
- Browser vs. desktop app - the difference between the demo and the cockpit
- Walk away with a one-page Power-User Cheat Sheet you can pin next to your monitor
Friday 15 May 2026
Available on demand
What You'll Learn
7 mistakes even daily AI users make - and the small fixes that 10x your output
Everyone's running webinars on how to use AI. Almost no one is showing you the bad habits you've already built - the ones that make your AI feel mediocre when it should feel like magic. Saurav and James use these tools every day to run a B2B SaaS company. In 45 minutes, they'll show you the 7 things they've learned not to do - each one demoed live on screen-share, each one fixable in under a minute.
First, the honest bit
You're probably using AI like it's Google.
73% of knowledge workers use AI weekly. Almost none have changed their default settings, opened a project, or written more than a one-line prompt. One-shot prompts. Same chat for every topic. Default settings. Whatever the first reply was - that's what you ship. It's not your fault. Nobody trained you on this. This session is the second lesson you never got - the seven habits that separate someone who's used AI for six months from someone who's actually fluent.
You never opened the settings panel
Memory's on. Training's on. Last Tuesday's LinkedIn rant is now context for this Tuesday's board deck. Most consumer AI tools default to remembering things across chats - and quietly using your conversations to improve the model.
The fix: Open settings. Look at memory. Delete the noise. Turn off training-on-your-data if you're on a consumer plan. Two minutes, once. Done.
Do this in the first 5 minutes of the sessionYou repeat instead of restart
Bad answer → "try again" → "be more specific" → answer gets worse. You're not correcting the model, you're poisoning the context. Every reply now anchors on the wrong direction.
The fix: When AI veers off, don't argue with it. New chat. Better prompt. Move on. The pros restart. The amateurs negotiate.
You're using the browser, not the desktop app
The browser version is the demo. The desktop app is the cockpit. It can see your screen, read your folders, and connect to Slack, Drive, HubSpot, and your calendar in real time. Almost no one knows.
The fix: Download the desktop app. Connect one tool today - start with Drive or Gmail. Live demo in the session.
You start from zero every conversation
"I'm the CEO of a B2B SaaS company in HR tech…" - and you type it again tomorrow. 80% of every prompt is the same boilerplate.
The fix: Build it once. Projects, custom instructions, skills, custom GPTs all exist for this. Load context once, reuse it forever.
You picked one AI tool and stuck with it
"Which AI is best?" is the wrong question. The right question is which combo. Claude for writing and reasoning. ChatGPT for image and quick answers. Perplexity for research with sources. Each has a sweet spot.
The fix: Don't subscribe to four. Pick a primary, then learn when to bounce a task to a different one.
You're trying to be a prompt engineer
Stop sweating over the perfect prompt. Ask the AI to write the prompt: "Help me write a prompt that will get you to do X really well. Ask me clarifying questions first."
The fix: Meta-prompting beats prompting. Two minutes of Q&A up front saves an hour of bad output downstream.
You shipped the first draft
The first output is the floor, not the ceiling. The second draft - where you go back and revise the prompt, not just the output - is where the real quality lives. "Now do that again, but cut the corporate tone, drop the bullet points, and add a specific example from financial services."
The fix: Treat output as a diagnostic. What went wrong tells you what was missing from the prompt. Add it. Re-run. Now it's good.
The Power-User Cheat Sheet
Every registrant gets a one-page printable PDF you can pin next to your monitor. Seven mistakes, seven fixes, the exact settings to change, and the bonus tips we don't have time to cover live. Bring it to your team's next AI working session. Beats another deck.
Bonus tips we'll squeeze in if there's time
- Voice mode for thinking - walk-and-talk for 10 mins beats 30 mins of typing
- Paste your calendar, not just your question - context beats cleverness
- End every prompt with "what am I missing?"
- Use temporary chat for sensitive stuff (the redundancy list, the offer letter)
- The "explain it like I'm the auditor" stress test
- The one keyboard shortcut that cuts your AI workflow in half
Average user vs. fluent user. Same tool, same model, same monthly fee - wildly different output. The gap isn't the AI. It's the seven habits we'll fix in 45 minutes.
Don't learn the hard way. Watch the full session above and get the Power-User Cheat Sheet PDF.
Your Hosts
Meet the speakers
This session is hosted by two experts who use AI every day. They know where AI helps people, but more importantly where it should stay out of the way.
Saurav Chopra
CEO & Founder, 5Mins.ai
Saurav is a serial HR tech entrepreneur on a mission to solve workplace challenges with technology. He previously co-founded Perkbox, the global employee experience platform now serving 5,000+ employers and 3M+ employees, before exiting to Great Hill Partners. His latest venture, 5Mins.ai - the "TikTok of workplace learning" - combines generative AI, microlearning, gamification and peer learning to deliver a highly engaging learning experience for HR and compliance teams. Saurav holds an MBA from London Business School and an engineering degree from IIT Delhi, and is the recipient of the Barclays Scale Up Entrepreneur of the Year award.
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James Francis
Head of Growth Marketing, 5Mins
James is an experienced tech marketer with a background covering HR, e-commerce, property, and financial services. In his role as Head of Growth Marketing at 5Mins.ai, he leverages AI to deliver high-impact campaigns and accelerate growth.
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