Two years into a job I couldn't find my own files. Shortcuts everywhere, untitled documents I'd meant to throw away and never did, and no appetite for fixing any of it by hand. So I asked Gemini to build me a script that would sort it out, with two rules: don't rename anything, and don't delete anything. The folder I was dreading, the one where everything ambiguous would pile up, ended up with about twenty files in it.

A brainstorm about monetizing this blog turned into a realization that I'd never once opened the SEO panel on any of it. So I connected Claude to my Wix site and let it read what was actually there. What followed was fifteen posts fixed, an SEO education I never sat down for, and one moment where I checked the work and found every description had been wiped. The part I keep thinking about isn't the fix. It's that I learned the whole thing while doing it, which is why any of i

Someone asked a question in a company Slack channel that wasn't addressed to me, and it sent me off to Perplexity asking what I could actually do about the environmental cost of using AI constantly. I made a few changes that week and forgot about it. Eleven months later I went back and checked which ones survived, and found that the habit I'd dropped was the wrong one, the habit I kept religiously does nothing at all, and the two changes that genuinely mattered were ones I'd