Picture two people. Same tools, same access, roughly the same amount of time spent trying to get value out of AI. One of them gets genuinely useful output in minutes and moves on with their day. The other spends an hour wrestling with results that aren't quite right, editing things back into something usable, and finishing the whole exercise vaguely annoyed. The tools are identical. The prompts are similar enough. So what's actually different? Almost always, it's what was happening before they opened the chat window. 
Source: https://blog.agent.ai/ai-didnt-create-y ... w-problems