Intelligence, AI, web systems, digital strategy, and occasional opinions on how things actually work.
Three AI tools handed me the same wrong statistic about Johnson City. Tracing it back took me somewhere I did not expect: the local paper was not the problem, and the site with no reporters is now the easiest one for a machine to read.
AI prompts are now discoverable evidence. An expert was ordered to produce hers, and a CEO's ChatGPT logs were quoted in court. What it means for your work.
I use AI every day for work. The strangest thing it has done is make me clearer about what my own judgment actually is.
Most AI content makes it sound like the future arrives in one perfect prompt. My actual use of AI is a lot less glamorous: messy filings, broken code, bad OCR, skeptical clients, ugly spreadsheets, and a lot of human verification.
The most useful way to think about AI right now is to compare it to electricity. Electricity was a marvel when it arrived. People paid to watch lights turn on. Within a generation, nobody noticed it anymore; they just flipped a switch. The marvel had become infrastructure.