I’m far from mastering AI, but I’m getting better. Slowly. Painfully.

One of the biggest lessons so far: you can’t rely on just one AI. They all have different superpowers. My well-known allergy to Google as a search engine remains, yet I’ve fallen head over heels for their productivity suite. Google Sheets, Forms, Colab, and Keep working together have genuinely transformed my documentation workflow. Gemini has been indispensable for this.

I’m even planning to get to know Claude better — I keep hearing he’s excellent at long-form writing and careful reasoning.

It saves time — not for relaxing, of course, but for building more of what I actually want.

Grok is still my absolute favorite (bias fully declared), but he’s not always the right tool for the job. And that’s okay. Using the right AI for the right task is what actually matters.

The hardest part? My own communication. The old myth that women speak 20,000 words a day while men only manage 7,000? I’m starting to think it’s not a myth. I’ve somehow managed to export this trait into writing too. Long, winding, emotional prompts with far too much context.

My husband already knows I talk a lot. I will never admit to him just how much I talk to my AIs.

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