I was skeptical of AI use as a writing partner ever since Grammarly hit the scene some time ago. I decided to take a few elective college courses as well as some non-credit courses to keep some of my credentials current as a certified peer specialist in my state. I didn't like the way it wanted to change my tone and voice. It simply no longer sounded like me anymore. One of the elective courses i enrolled in was creative writing and Grammarly took the creative right out of it and replaced it with robotic. I just wasn't having it. At all... So, I already had confirmation bias lurking in my subconscious mind before Open AI and ChatGPT hit the scene. That was long before I had my spinal injuries and a whole slew of unfortunate events that would give me a running chance at winning a law suit to change the name of "Murphy's Law" to "Rushton's Law". But, with a twist, it wasn't a matter of what could go wrong would go wrong, it was a matter of how soon I had to prepare for the inevitability of it. I was just resigned to the fact that I would live the remainder of my days from crisis to crisis. I never whined about it. I just dealt with it as best as I could with what I had available at the time. So, I saw a perk on my Paypal home screen that involved Perplexity AI Pro. A one year subscription free as a Paypal perk. There had to be a catch. Right? Sure, after a year it's expensive as all hell. But, I liked what I saw and I was willing to give it a try. Then came Comet browser and Assistant. Then I started using assistant as I would use spell check and grammar check in MS Word. I use Google docs now. I was very impressed and it seemed like the AI assistant could learn my voice and tone in writing. It was able to extract life events from documents I fed it such as resumes, reference letters, etc. It took a detailed personality assessment I had done when I had decided to go back to college years ago and built context to address me with as a learning module. I started asking questions and realized the amount of power I had at my fingertips.

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Jason’s recent Medium piece about being accused of using AI struck a nerve for me. In my last company, I ran into repeated issues because my writing was assumed to be machine-generated because it was clear and consistent. At some point, the conversation stopped being about meaning and turned into suspicion about process. What feels strange is how quickly assumptions form. Careful wording can now work against you, and speed can raise questions. That puts people in an odd position when experience tends to show up as clarity. I am curious how others are handling this shift. If you write or communicate for work, how do you think about trust right now?

Roll on an income! (just joking) Ok folks this is some time for advice - i used to blog a bit when working for large corporate - mostly about life as an over 50 woman in the tech world - never took off much (my tone was too sarcastic) and frankly it was a place to vent - but i was teaching myself to use claude code and gemini so i could start the journey of building stuff for myself. The thing is i started documenting what i learned in my tech workflow - and I am seeing some return on interest from posting on reddit (well great for me) - but my medium acocunt - well now is looking a bit confused.. Any ideas on how i should improve it - want to do more tech stuff as well as journey to making a living doing apps and sites stuff and would really be interested in some feedback - or is a Medium profile worth grooming - at one point i think it would be worth sharing on linked in but i dont want the venting stuff associated with my real name. Thoughts? For those curious my medium profile is here: https://medium.com/@MinimumViableMatriarch