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How a Nearly Headless Dinosaur Sent Me Down an Amazon Privacy Rabbit Hole
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How a Nearly Headless Dinosaur Sent Me Down an Amazon Privacy Rabbit Hole

This experiment didn't start as an experiment. It started with a slammed door, a small wooden stegosaurus nameplate launching off a doorframe, sailing over a stair railing in what I can only describe as a brief and dramatic flight, and landing on the floor below looking like Nearly Headless Nick...

I Don't Know Anything About Decorating. ChatGPT Doesn't Either. We Helped Anyway.
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I Don't Know Anything About Decorating. ChatGPT Doesn't Either. We Helped Anyway.

A friend who doesn't use AI tools asked me for decorating advice. They're furnishing a lake house living room and wanted to know what accent chair colors would work with what they already had. I don't have an interior design background. But I do have ChatGPT...

GPT 5.2 Nailed My Plant Care Question, Then Got Fooled by a Moose
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GPT 5.2 Nailed My Plant Care Question, Then Got Fooled by a Moose

I had a trailing vine plant sitting on top of a cabinet in my house and wanted to know if I should do anything with it. Simple question. But I also had an ulterior motive: I wanted to see if ChatGPT could match a specialized plant identification app.

Hands-on with "Nano Banana Pro": Context, Cartoons, and Guardrails
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Hands-on with "Nano Banana Pro": Context, Cartoons, and Guardrails

Yesterday's experiment started with a simple goal: test whether Google's latest image model understands context or just follows instructions. The results revealed both a massive leap forward in AI's a...

When AI looks in your Fridge
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When AI looks in your Fridge

Last night's experiment started with a simple idea: could a large language model make something useful out of the chaos in my fridge after a busy weekend?

When AI Gets Creative (A Little Too Creative): The Gamma vs. ChatGPT Experiment
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When AI Gets Creative (A Little Too Creative): The Gamma vs. ChatGPT Experiment

I just had one of those "this is why we can't have nice things" moments with AI.

The Case of the Color-Changing (and Sometimes Disappearing) Shirt
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The Case of the Color-Changing (and Sometimes Disappearing) Shirt

The Challenge: A friend needed her headshot edited to match her brand colors - specifically, changing her blue dress to purple. Simple enough, right? Well, as with most things in AI, the journey was m...

Rapid Prototyping with Real Limitations
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Rapid Prototyping with Real Limitations

Gamma is brilliant for breaking the blank page problem. That initial rush of having a complete deck in seconds gave me momentum. Even though I changed most of the content, having something to react to was psychologically powerful.