I’ve noticed myself being less amused by videos or pictures that look “so” incredible. I’ll figure that it is probably AI…. I have that hunger for real life/unedited material. What is the person really like? Sometimes posts that are so perfect that three years ago they would be amazing to read, now…now it has lost its brilliance because I figure it was an AI and not a human. Does anyone else feel this way? There was a talk by..I forgot his name, but he talked about not using AI for right brained things, and use it for left brained things. I loved his talk. He was a Harvard professor that taught happiness.

Notice that the more efficient you become, the more predictable your own thinking gets? And if you’re mindlessly using AI to optimize your work, you're dabbling in endless sameness, and accelerating the speed of delivering "average.." I've spent years in tech product watching teams prioritize speed over authenticity, only to realize that the real innovation wasn't in the tools and products ultimately conceived, but in the courage to challenge the underlying assumption of efficiency itself. True creative power comes from the deliberate act of breaking patterns to provoke new insight, which AI can help with if used right.. But if you’re using it only to find answers, you’ll only ever find the average.

Automation starts with rules. This fictional crossover shows how explaining those rules—heat, timing, conditions—helps people trust the outcome, whether it’s a recipe or a workflow. How do you explain decisions in your own systems?

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