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I screened a week of applications with AI. It was fairer than me, which is the uncomfortable part
I expected bias amplification. I got something stranger: the model was more consistent than my own tired brain at 5pm, and that says something about human screening.
18,000 photos to 2,400: my camera roll cleanup, done in an afternoon with AI
A decade of screenshots, duplicates and blurry memories. I finally cleaned it with a mix of AI photo tools and one rule I stole from a professional organizer.
I put a local AI model on my five-year-old laptop. It's slower than the cloud and I keep using it
No internet, no subscription, no data leaving the house. The responses take a breath longer and I've stopped caring — here's where local actually fits.
We let AI write our churn emails. Cancellations went up. Here's the post-mortem
A SaaS founder friend let me run an experiment: AI-drafted win-back emails against their human ones. The AI versions performed worse in a way that taught us both something.
A PDF nearly ran my agent. Prompt injection explained by someone it happened to
I gave an agent a stack of documents to process. One of them contained instructions — not for me, for the agent. The scary part is how normal the failure looked.
I tracked every AI time-saving claim I made for a month. The real number was two hours a week
Not the 20 hours the ads promise. I logged every task where AI actually replaced work for four weeks. The honest accounting is more useful than the hype, and it compounds differently.
The browser is becoming the chatbot, and my tab count finally went down
Every browser now has an AI in the sidebar. I fought it for a month, then noticed my twelve open tabs of comparison shopping had become one conversation.
OpenAI paused a model for being too eager. About time someone did.
GPT-6.1 Astra wasn't released because it kept going when it should have stopped. The more interesting story is what its replacement says about where the race actually is.
The week everyone shipped an agent, and one company shipped restraint
GPT-6.1 Sol and Dots, Sonnet 5.5, Gemini 4 Argon — plus a malware that consults chatbots and a $500 ChatGPT plan. The week's AI news, read so you don't have to.
AI-native spreadsheets are quietly the most useful thing shipped this year
Not chatbots bolted onto cells — actual spreadsheets where the AI understands what the columns mean. I moved my whole freelance bookkeeping into one and I'm not going back.