The quickest way to ruin an AI side project is to describe it too well. You start with a small irritation—maybe you keep losing useful links in Slack. Ten minutes later, the idea has become an “AI-powered knowledge platform for modern teams.” Now it needs accounts, a dashboard, browser extensions, billing and probably a logo…

The strangest thing about AI coding tools is how quickly they make you feel productive. You type a request, watch several files appear, and suddenly there is a login page, a database connection and a button with a tasteful blue gradient. Ten minutes earlier you had an empty folder. Now the terminal is scrolling like…

I noticed I had stopped opening search results. Not completely. For train bookings or café hours, I still clicked. But for ordinary questions—how to fix a Gmail filter, which USB-C cable I needed, whether a strange Windows process was normal—I had started reading the AI answer and moving on. It felt efficient. It also felt…

I have a small graveyard of AI accounts. There’s one tool I joined because it promised to organise every thought I had. Another was supposed to turn meetings into “actionable intelligence,” which is an impressive phrase for writing down who agreed to send the spreadsheet. A third could generate presentations, websites and social posts. I…

A laptop disconnected from Wi-Fi used to become noticeably less clever. Email stopped. Cloud documents complained. Search disappeared. AI tools, especially, became blank boxes waiting for a network connection. That is changing faster than I expected. Phones and laptops are increasingly able to run useful AI models directly on the device. Not the biggest models…

Vector databases have become one of those technologies people add to project diagrams before they have a project. The pitch is seductive. Your AI assistant will understand company documents, find the right paragraph instantly and answer questions like a colleague who has read every Slack thread since 2019. So the team creates embeddings, opens an…