AI cut my research from a week of reading to an afternoon. That part is real.
What hasn't changed is what I'm allowed to say afterwards.
So one AI tool does the research, and a different one, from a different company, checks it without seeing how the first got there. Asking the same tool twice mostly gets the same answer, said more confidently. Where the two disagree is usually where I'd have gone wrong.
Then the step people skip: I have to understand it. Not find it plausible. Follow it well enough to explain it to someone who'll push back. If I can't, it doesn't go in front of a customer.
The tools changed the speed. The responsibility for the answer is still mine.