I was thinking a lot about a post from @Carla Bosteder (Using AI without losing YOUR voice) from a few days ago and I came to a conclusion that I rely too heavily on AI to write for me. Yes, AI has some training on how I think and how I write. Yes, I dictate my thoughts to AI to generate the copy I want to write. But this is not the same. Somehow the soul of the communication is lost. I started noticing this more and more in this community. The tell-tell signs of AI generated text. It makes me stop reading and just feed the post to AI to summarize it for me. I was never a great writer. I managed to get As and Bs on composition papers in college. Some people have a gift and can write well, just like some people have a gift with art or music. For me it was always a process of writing, re-writing, editing. I do not have the time for that now, so what do I do if I want to preserve my soul in my work? I would love to join a community that focuses just on that. How to use AI as a tool when writing and not a text generator. Use the AI more like a secretary back in the age before office computers. Use the AI more like an editor that enhances and clarifies writing, and not like a soulless generator. There have to be methods and strategies from the past we can apply in the AI age. I am not the person to uncover those "ancient" methods, but I sure would like to learn from people that do. In the meantime I will dust off my copy of "The Elements of Style" by Strunk & White as I feel that writing style may be just perfect for the AI Era. P.S. No AI was used to generate this message.

Hi, I'm Gary here, and I'm here to share my AI journey! I'm currently using AI for all kinds of things, but a regular thing I do is generate html slides for presentations. I work as a university tutor and like to put together presentations for my students to help them understand the content we are working on during a given week. AI has been a big help with deciding what to include or not include, what things warrant a deeper explanation or even a demonstration. I'm fairly comfortable with building structured systems, but am very new when it comes to using AI and discovered this community because I want to do things the right way and what Jake is teaching makes sense. It still feels like the wild west out there, but Jakes method just feels solid. A good framework that will serve you six months from now, and six years from now! One thing that caught my attention from this lesson is it's overall simplicity. Files and folders being navigated by a single agent strips away the complexity and shows that this isn't voodoo! I'm excited to learn how to apply this methodology to all of my projects and see how structured approaches to AI can help me not only build better systems, but to do it in a way that stays resilient well into the future!

Not sure if if this is an appropriate question for this forum, but the people here are kind of my best AI community and the answers have always been first rate. Props to Jake and his crew. One of my bigger projects for the rest of the year, beside setting up an ICM, is to do a complete systems reset on my pc infrastructure. (FYI, I am just about to do my first sets of testing for my database and schema, so the next week or so should be fun.) So, I still have my laptop from 2004. Along with a half dozen other more modern laptops which have been given to me when people upgrade theirs. I knew it was a Thinkpad, seems to be a model 2366 (per the label) and maybe a T30. The googlebot says that DIYers love these, and looking over it now, I can see why. Lots of ports and a couple of slots for disks. Ones a cd. Not sure of the others, some type of card size drive. It's a bit dirty and IIRC the battery is dead. It needs a power cord and brick too. What's the community opinion? Is it worth cleaning up and perhaps doing some experimenting with?

Picture this: The year is 2030 mythos 222 is president of the United States and requires a single sentence about what you bring to the table. What are you saying? //A<3

I'm delivering the attached presentation next week at the Austin Claude Meetup. It shows a file-based company brain built around the same principles I value in ICM: simple, portable, and traceable. The practical pieces: - Simple file routes for recall - Workflows stored as reusable Skills or beside the work they govern - Pre-processing email, calls, videos, PDFs, presentations, spreadsheets, and exports before an agent needs them Full credit to Jake Van Clief for popularizing ICM and consistently advocating for simpler solutions. Sharing it here first because this group will catch what I missed. Where does the presentation align with ICM, and where does it need sharpening?