Jump Right In – How I Actually Use AI Every Day
Using AI Every Day
This “Jump Right In” post highlights some of the ways I use AI everyday.
For many people, artificial intelligence still feels mysterious.
The headlines talk about massive technological change, but the day-to-day reality of working with AI is much simpler.
Most days it doesn’t feel like using advanced technology at all.
It feels more like having an extra conversation partner in the workshop.
The Situation
Like many builders and small business owners, my days often begin with a mix of ideas, tasks, and unfinished projects.
Some involve writing. Others involve planning websites, organizing content, or solving small structural problems that arise during the process of building something new.
Recently much of that work has been focused on developing the Vermont Visitors Guide, a regional travel resource that organizes towns, regions, and experiences across the state.
Projects like this require a lot of thinking about structure before the writing even begins.
Here’s part of an ongoing Series documenting My First Year Building with AI:
My First Year Building with AI
How AI Fits Into the Process
Instead of treating AI as a tool that produces finished answers, I use it as part of the thinking process – this is certainly a partnership with give and take.
Some days that means discussing how a website should be structured. Other days it involves outlining articles, testing ideas, or exploring how different pieces of a project might connect.
The technology helps accelerate the early stages of thinking — organizing possibilities, suggesting structures, and helping clarify ideas that might otherwise take much longer to sort out.
The final decisions are always human.
But the conversation helps move the work forward.
What I’ve Learned
One of the biggest misconceptions about AI is that it replaces the work of thinking.
In practice, the opposite tends to happen.
Working with AI often encourages deeper thinking because it turns many problems into conversations. You can explore options, challenge assumptions, and refine ideas much more quickly.
Over time, the process begins to feel less like operating software and more like collaborating with a thinking partner.
Reflections on Building With AI
Here’s a helpful article on how to best work with AI for building networks:
Working With AI: A Practical Guide for Builders
Jump Right In
If you’re curious about how AI might fit into your work, try starting with a problem you’re already thinking about.
It doesn’t need to be complicated. It could be organizing a project, outlining an article, or exploring how different ideas might connect.
Start the conversation and see where it leads.
You may find that artificial intelligence becomes less intimidating once you stop thinking of it as a machine and begin treating it as part of the creative process.
Sometimes the best way to understand a new tool is simply to start building with it.
Jump right in.
This Article is part of the Media Crush “Jump Right In” Series on AI
