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Horse Blinders Helped Me Ignore 14,998 AI Tools (Stop Being Overwhelmed By AI News)
This article argues that mastering one or two AI tools deeply beats chasing the 15,000+ tools on the market. The author shares how focusing on ChatGPT and Midjourney to create children's books built transferable skills like prompt engineering. It offers a 60-day action plan for choosing a specific problem, picking two tools, and ignoring the noise.
Published June 10, 2025 by Kamil Banc
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Mastering two AI tools deeply beats dabbling with twenty — focus beats headline-chasing
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15,000 AI Tools Exist
There are over 15,000 AI tools available today, making it impossible to stay current with all.
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Companies Still Experimenting
72% of companies using AI are still experimenting rather than systematically applying it.
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Two-Tool Children's Books
Kamil Banc used ChatGPT for stories and Midjourney for illustrations to create children's books.
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Deep Mastery Transfers
Mastering one tool deeply develops pattern recognition and prompt engineering skills that transfer across platforms.
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60-Day Focus Commitment
The author recommends committing to 60 days of focused practice with a maximum of two tools.
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"Strategic horseblinders gave me transferable expertise, not scattered familiarity."
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Over 15,000 AI tools
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72% of companies
The article states that 72% of companies using AI are still experimenting rather than systematically applying it.
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The article presents a practitioner methodology called the 'strategic horseblinders' approach, developed by Kamil Banc after experiencing AI news overwhelm in late 2022. Rather than chasing every new tool launch, he focused exclusively on ChatGPT and Midjourney to create children's books, building deep prompting expertise that later transferred to new platforms like Claude. The recommended action plan is deliberately constrained: pick one specific time-consuming work problem, choose at most two established tools, and commit to 60 days of focused practice while ignoring new announcements. Only after proving value and building confidence does the practitioner expand to a next use case, repeating the same disciplined process.
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