EP 003

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How We Actually Use AI at Work, All Day

No frameworks, no maturity models. A blow-by-blow account of one working week: what we handed to a model, what we refused to, what came back wrong, and the running tally of hours it actually saved.

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No frameworks, no maturity models. A blow-by-blow account of one working week: what we handed to a model, what we refused to, what came back wrong, and the running tally of hours it actually saved.

In this episode

Monday: the inbox

Triage, drafting, and the specific point where delegating replies started costing more than it saved.

Wednesday: the research day

Six sources, one synthesis, and two confident fabrications caught only because we read the originals.

Friday: the honest tally

Where the time went, and why the biggest win was not speed but starting on hard things sooner.

The tasks we stopped delegating

A short list, and the principle underneath it: never delegate the work you are accountable for explaining.

The value was not that it wrote faster. It was that a blank page stopped being a reason to postpone.

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