It’s speed. Grunt work & time gets in the way of seeing out ideas and making them realities. You can test ideas significantly faster and get to answers much quicker so you’re moving mountains instead of pebbles.

If I’m working on something that is properly documented, it’s a waste of time to ask a human or search for something when a machine can find it in seconds so I can continue my work instead of spinning in circles for a hour.

Why am I as a single dad having to spend an entire night working on a meal plan for the week when I can have AI take my parameters, point it to my sources and drop me the plan every Sunday at 5pm without paying a service to do it?

Why should I look through articles and articles of local events when I can have my local AI ingest everything and bubble up what’s important?

I can’t trust news that pops up on Reddit by bots or government controlled media outlets. But I also don’t sit around on my ass all day to spend hours on news. Why not have my local models point at places like AP and Reuters and pull down all the articles in the day and summarize it for me for a 15 min read?

The internet has been enshitified, if I want to learn about something and research whatever, I have to dig through layers of sponsored content, click bait, and straight up lies. Why not build a RAG pointed at places I can trust and ingest data dumps from highly respected scientific and medical studies so I can get -real- answers?

I’m a high output army of 1 with responsibilities taller than me. My greatest enemy is time and I’m regularly trying to shove 35 hours into a 24 hour day.

AI has been a gift.

But you need to do it local and design your own stuff.