AI, without the hype. Without the homework.
A normal person's questions about AI deserve normal answers. What should I try first? What is worth my time? How do I actually use this in my work and life?
No course to sell, no framework to push, no five-step funnel. Just hand-built browser tools and honest field notes, so anyone a few steps behind me can skip the same wrong turns. If you have ever felt that AI was either over-sold to you or written above your head, you belong here.
- Readers 1,200+ and growing
- Years in tech 20+ in SDLC and Consultant roles
- Posts published 10 and counting
- Utility runs 180+ across the site
Hand-built utilities, free to use.
Small, focused, browser-only. No install, no signup wall - continue with your existing Google account once and the toolkit is yours.
Turn a one-line idea into a model-ready prompt.
Role / Objective / Background / Data - the framework that pulls precise answers out of any chat model. Free with a Google sign-in, 5 generations a day.
- Structured CO-STAR output
- Attachment-aware
- JSON or plain-text export
AI Jargon Buster
One-paragraph plain-English explanation of any AI term, with a real-world analogy.
Open →Meeting Summarizer
Drop in raw notes; get decisions, action items, and owners - in the format your stand-up actually wants.
Open →Latest posts.
Field notes from a working professional learning AI in the open - honest, sourced, written in his own voice.
I was an AI skeptic until I treated my brain as an algorithm
For two years I called AI fake intelligence. Then I learned AI is only as good as the input, and the human brain is also an algorithm on experience.
I fell back to Google. The task was the problem.
When AI gave me different answers to the same prompt every time, the problem was the task, not the tool. Here is the two-question filter I use now.
I asked AI to fix 120 pages. The false positives were on me.
Context engineering vs prompt engineering, told through a 120-page proofread that came back in five minutes with false positives I had to throw out.
A toolkit and a point of view.
Who's behind this
Twenty years in software - development, QA, and now Consulting - learning AI in public.
Read about →Tools for AI aspirants
Small, focused web tools - continue with your Google account once to start using them.
Open utilities →Field notes on AI
Long-form posts from a working professional learning AI in the open - honest, sourced, written in his own voice.
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