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We are! Also, it's never just one person's fault. ;-)

100% agree. AI making it easy for just about anyone might allow people to apply the appropriate amount of skepticism to what has already been going on.

It’s really wild the range of experiences with AI. Sometimes this thing is omniscient. Sometimes it really can’t see what’s right in front of its face. I get why non-technical people unfamiliar with AI have such a rough time. The "uneven frontier" is no joke.

Claude Code rules everything around me.

To be a one issue voter in this moment is wild. Particularly if that’s your issue. I like my tech toys as much as or maybe even more than the next guy but this is not the moment.

The only thing stopping us from having autonomously self improving apps is the economics of tokens. But it will certainly happen. The fact that these things can via playwright mcp and/or unit tests actually make changes that don’t break stuff is going to make way for that autonomy.

I only bake bread discovered while on a soul searching trek through the Himalayas, thank you very much.

I came to say this. The problem is that recipes online are a user hostile experience. So yeah, if the AI summary will tell me how many cups of flour I need directly, I'm definitely not going to choose to crawl through that field of ads to look at the original recipe.

Building Your Personal Data Pipeline: Taking Control of Your AI Context Companies leverage proprietary data for AI advantage. As individuals, we should too. I'm building my own personal data pipeline to make all my scattered context (notes, conversations, insights) search...

Companies use proprietary data for AI advantage. As individuals, we should too.

We now have the tools to synthesize our own data like never before.

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What's your biggest "I know I wrote something about this somewhere" challenge?

#AIContext

How to Move Your Team from AI Fear to AI Fluency A practical 8-step roadmap to transform your organization from AI anxiety to AI mastery. 78% of organizations now use AI—learn how to guide your team through successful adoption.

8 Steps to bring your team from AI fear to AI fluency

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How AI Changes What's Possible, Not Just What's Faster AI isn't just making existing processes faster—it's enabling organizations to adopt capabilities they could never afford before. This creates leapfrog advantages for players previously locked out by r...

AI isn't just faster. It makes the impossible possible for resource-constrained orgs.

Small consultancies now offer enterprise research. Bootstrapped startups run agency campaigns. The winners: nimble players freed from past constraints.

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That “I wasn’t doing my job” is now a plausible excuse is a wild statement on where we are as a country.

Any time I check out workflow automation tools like Zapier I always get stuck on having to learn THEIR way of constructing a program. Used to be worth it for the integrations but now... It's easier to have AI help me write code than it is to decipher their particular eccentricities.

AI as writer is hit and miss but AI as editor is not to be missed.

Now that anyone can mimic yesterday’s “perfect” style, the real question is which new styles will cut through the noise. I’m fine with em-dashes, but when every post starts to look the same, I can’t help craving something fresh.

Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking The free and flexible app for your private thoughts.

Watching for the slow creep of markdown becoming a first class format for document tools everywhere. As AI becomes a dominant part of everyone's workflow, it's just going to be inescapably convenient. If you aren't aware, LLMs speak markdown. Doing more and more doc mgmt in Obsidian.md now.

New model day is like Christmas. What previously impossible thing is now absolutely mundane?!?

A lot of the pushback on AI isn’t about the tech. It’s that people don’t want “AI.” They want solutions. Most don’t care if it’s powered by AI or Mensa-certified octopi. Just solve the problem.

Hype might attract funding, but it often alienates the audience that actually matters.

“I reject AI” posts are like early smartphone refusals. Loud. Sincere. Inevitable.

But utility > purity. Folks will end up using AI. It just gets bundled into life.

There will always be people who resist. Some don’t use the internet or smartphones either.

But they’re the exception.

Confessions of an AI Creator: Beyond Commas and Semicolons A practical guide to maintaining creative control while leveraging AI's capabilities.

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Frames 5-7.

Working with AI hasn’t made me less creative.

It’s sharpened what matters: vision, clarity, curation. AI doesn’t kill originality—it amplifies it when used with intent.

What role does AI play in your creative process?

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It'd be nice if this brought "buses" to cities that famously don't have great public transport. I'd love to see an overlay of their uber routes vs public transpo lines. Clearly, they aren't focused on any public good but maybe they could accidentally help.

My current vibe coding workflow:
1. Claude Desktop (3.7 Sonnet – Reasoning)
• Load repo via GitHub MCP server
• Ask Claude to review codebase
• Generate implementation plan for new feature
2. Cursor (Execution)
• Drop plan into Cursor
• Zoom. Zoom.
3. No step 3. Just vibes.

"AI wrote that blog you loved."

icons side‑by‑side, auto‑correct = 🤖, pencil = ✍️ — “We’ve partnered with machines for years.”

"Value > Origin"

Auto‑correct is already AI.

We all co‑write with machines and will continue to do so; hunting em‑dashes won’t change a thing. What matters is whether the words are useful.

Do you judge words by usefulness or by the process?

Permission and Purpose: AI Adoption Is Cultural Change, Not Just Technical Integration AI adoption isn’t about tools. It’s about culture. The orgs that win are the ones where leadership models the behavior, systems support learning, and teams have permission to experiment and purpose to...

AI adoption isn’t about tools.
It’s about leadership.
About culture.
About whether your org is willing to live the values it claims—like learning, growth, and experimentation.

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AI killed friction. Now *choice* is scarce.

#AIProductivity #AttentionEconomy

I love it when I'm in Cursor and I paste an error into the agent, and it says, "The problem occurs when [blah blah]. In your code [blah blah]." Listen, we both know this isn't *my* code. You just wrote that code. I am merely a vessel, a custodian, if you will, of this code.

20-30 bucks a pop in every app is something I will gladly be rid of. API key usage brings down aggregate costs or at least allows you to pay where you actually use it daily but key management is a hassle. This will all get better but right now the magic comes with both a real and figurative cost.