My $DayJob involves a lot of tech stuff. I don’t do any coding, but I work on the sales side of tech. It’s busy and complicated, but for years it has run smoothly.

In the last few months, however, me and my other colleagues have had AI jammed down our throats. Corporate is BOMBARDING us with encouragement to “leverage AI in your daily workflow.” Then they throw questions at us like “How did you use AI recently? How did it make your job better/more efficient? Can you give an example or two of what AI did for you?” Which…fine. The truth there is that I use our coporate LLM to summarize docs and emails, and write out responses that I can’t be fucked to write myself. Of course, I don’t explain it just like that, but that’s the gist.

Lately, they’ve also been asking about how we use AI in our home life. How is AI helping? What would you need AI to do? Etc, etc. That’s where I got a teensie bit flippant with my responses. I said something like “I use it to write thank you notes and birthday greetings. I wish it would write my journal entries for me.”

Then I closed it with, “I used AI to help me write this explanation, too.” Because I’m an asshole.