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Trying Out AI (Before You Do...)

Journal

The AI Elder

First-hand reports from the field — what actually happens when you sit down with AI and try to make it work for you.

A figure in a laboratory beside a skeleton, referencing the Frankenstein "animation" scene

Bringing the AI Home, Part Two: The Brain Goes In

The machine was finally alive. The first thing it said was "I don't know" — and that turned out to be the point.

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Two figures beside an open grave under a dark sky, referencing the Frankenstein "assembling the body" scene

Bringing the AI Home, Part 1: The Unboxing

The box promised 20-30 minutes. It took a week, a Best Buy run, and a lot of trial and error to find out why.

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Yul Brynner as Rameses, holding a scroll, in The Ten Commandments

So It Shall Be Written

A Hollywood pharaoh, a Silicon Valley superprompt, and the difference between asking and telling.

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A robot with a puzzled expression, apparently unable to recall something

The Memory That Isn't Yours

Claude confirmed it stored eight biographical entries. None appeared in settings. A first-hand look at a gap between what AI memory promises and what it delivers.

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