What Playing With AI Taught Me About My Work
AI can turn work into play—and distract me from the work I need to do. Here’s how I’m learning to bring something back from those detours.
TL;DR
- The author used AI to turn work skills into imaginary creatures and build worlds for them, making tasks feel like a game.
- This playful engagement with AI, initially a distraction from work, led to a deeper understanding of her writing process and audience needs.
- By creating AI-driven characters and scenarios, she developed a new skill for reviewing AI sessions to identify useful lessons and potential takeaways.
- She found that by focusing on character motivations and story arcs, she could better understand reader needs and integrate them into her work.
- The author created an experimental AI skill called 'Is This Anything?' to help extract valuable insights from AI sessions, enabling her to apply lessons without fully committing to extensive AI projects.