The Year Nobody Saw
For about a year, I talked to AI every day and felt like I had little to show for it. Turns out I was getting back something I thought I'd lost.
If AI is so smart,
why is this so hard?
You've had the "holy shit" moment. You've seen what AI can do. It's great at answering questions, writing emails, summarizing docs. But that doesn't change anything. The moment you try to make AI do something that actually changes how you work, there's a wall. And nobody's talking about it because the tutorials stop at the easy part.
You're not the only one. It's this hard for everyone. The people who seem to have it figured out are just further down the same messy road.
I'm not a developer. I've never written code. But I manage AI like a team, and I build things that shouldn't be possible for one person. While trying to learn what to do, I started learning what not to do. That turned out to be the whole game.
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