AI tools
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AI Is Brilliant Until You Actually Try To Use It

AI is bloody useful. I use it every day. Research, tightening up phrasing, pressure-testing ideas, fact checking, checking angles I might have missed – adding balance to opinion pieces. It earns its keep. But some of the most hyped AI features are the ones that fall apart the second you lean on them properly. Image…
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Stop Calling AI Tools Cheating, You’re Missing the Point

The question comes up now and then. “Do you use ChatGPT?” It’s asked with this peculiar mixture of curiosity and judgement, as though admitting to using AI tools is some sort of confession. The implication hangs there: using ChatGPT means you’re cheating, taking shortcuts, or somehow diminishing the value of your work. That attitude is…