I think I’m using AI wrong.
Not wrong, obviously. There’s no right way to use AI. In fact, there may not be an ideal use case and if there is we certainly haven’t found it yet. And, as Molly White pointed out, maybe we shouldn’t be using it all.
What I mean is that I think I’m using it differently. When I compare notes against how other people are using it, I seem to be a bit off the mark. For instance, I see a lot of people that use it to help them think. They field questions against a chatbox, or use it to explain a chunk of code for them, or to connect disparate ideas together. Stuff like that.
It makes sense, I guess. I can’t wrap my head around it. When I first started using AI a bit in my writing, I used it to revise and rewrite a few things, which is where I find I guess most stuck. But then everything spit out in that sing songy, hustle culture, corporate-speak-with-exclamation-points-on-every-sentence way and I just gave up.
When I turn to it now, which is less and less, I use it to finish a thought. If I’m writing a bit of code, I’ll map out the structure and start to write a function name, then let Copilot fill in a first draft for me to look at. If I’m looking for a certain word or a turn of a phrase, maybe I’ll take that over to ChatGPT.
When I have something on the tip of my tongue, I turn to AI. And I haven’t really found another way to use it.
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