For whatever reason, over the last six to nine months, an increasing number of people have been asking me my opinions about AI. What it is. What I use it for. If it's as crazy as they have heard it is.
These questions have come from friends, parents of kids from school, coworkers, and folks from church. So, over the course of this post, I'll do my best to summarize a lot of those answers and thoughts. However, we have to start with one mega caveat:
I think it's also important to note that this blog post is really aimed at "regular" people. That is, people who aren't employed in the software or technology sectors and aren't living, breathing, eating, dreaming, worrying, cogitating, cooking, discombobulating, booping, and julienning about AI as much as I am. (There's a Claude Code joke in there for the nerds who did make the mistake of reading this.)
So, if you're already deep in this like me, you probably won't find anything new here.
I think, for most people, interactions with AI are limited to a chat that might be effectively a summary of Google Search results.
