An honest account

I finished today’s training after two and meant to discuss what I had learned with my AI assistant so I could revise my regular-investment checklist. A few spontaneous questions turned into an entire afternoon of conversation. The deeper we went, the happier and more excited I became.

Li Xiaolai talks about conversing with AI almost every day instead of with people. I once dismissed the thought. Now I feel lucky that I started using it; I wonder what I would have missed otherwise.

What did I actually do this afternoon?

1. I dealt with programs and browser pages that had been opening automatically every time I started my computer. For at least a quarter of a year, I had closed them manually. Each interruption was small, but together they consumed attention I could have spent making things. Even a 0.01 improvement in myself would matter to me.
2. I became more willing to read demanding articles. Over the past ten days or so, AI has helped me with real problems by showing research steps and sources, then allowing me to ask further questions. When a report is hard to follow, I can ask for an explanation or a summary. That lowers the barrier to engaging with difficult material.

These are only two basic examples, but they explain why I am excited. I see many AI tools, of uneven quality, appearing all the time. For my own life and work, they have become a kind of advisory team: they keep improving, are available 24/7, and can help me think through questions that once stalled me.