Advisory Hour archive

MusicLab · MusicLab

MusicLab: New Albums

Folded Thunder and PowerPillGo bring two new soundtracks, two very different moods, and one paper dinosaur into MusicLab.

Field Notes

Blender: OpenAI’s Astra Makes a Car-to-Robot Animation

Astra models a car, turns it into a robot, animates a fist bump, and adds synchronized sound from a three-sentence prompt.

GameLab · PowerPillGo!

GameLab: PowerPillGo!

A match-four game gains four villains, superhero energy, and a video-driven menu in less than a day.

Writing

Writing: I Keep Forgetting to Write the Sentence in My Head

Pumpkin heads, dragon hair, and James Dean reveal the hard part of writing: building the bridge between two thoughts.

GameLab · Folded Thunder

GameLab: Pip the Dinosaur in Video

Real sound, music, faster stages, and generated character videos turn a fun paper-dinosaur detour into Folded Thunder.

Leadership OS · Leadership notes

Meditation on Stretch Goals

A stretch goal begins after the work is mapped: it asks what capability a person or team can build while doing it.

GameLab · Folded Thunder

GameLab: Touring More of Pip the Dinosaur

Mr. Blank, paper-ball momentum, the crease charge, boss machines, and small animation details bring Pip's folded world into focus.

GameLab · Folded Thunder

GameLab: Pip the Dinosaur (Paper Origami)

Pip begins as a fast paper dinosaur, Mr. Blank raises a brass doomsday machine, and a Sonic-inspired runner finds its own folded-paper rules.

GameLab · Mario Walker

GameLab: Mario Walker Experiment Postmortem

Mario Walker reaches sixty-two stages, then runs into the harder problem: how one person reviews a game that an agent can expand faster than anyone can play it.

Field Notes

Information Architecture: Using Taxonomy With AI-Driven Results

A crowded local-AI menu becomes easier to use after one precise word gives the agent a better way to group the work.

ArtLab · Local AI Music Video Experiments

Local AI: Music Video Experiments

Three locally generated music videos test a Z-Image-to-M3 production pipeline, an autonomous Hermes run, and the practical problem of reviewing more media than one person can watch.

Model Training

Local AI: Exploring Jet Concepts

Local video generation sends several strange aircraft ideas into the sky, from a rainbow bomber to a fast jet crossing a neon city.

GameLab · Mario Walker

The AT-AT Avenges Luke

Luke falls, the stage keeps running, and a passing AT-AT starts firing at the Goombas that caused the trouble.

GameLab · Mario Walker

GameLab: What If... Mario Walker?

An early Mario Walker build puts Luke inside Retro stages, lets an AT-AT bother the Goombas, and runs into the problem of testing a game larger than its maker has played.

GameLab · Founderman 2

Re-imagining Founderman for Founderman 2

Founderman returns as an anime-styled experiment that keeps the original game mechanics while rebuilding its characters and motion.

Writing

Writing: Approaching Pyramid Writing

A writing exercise tries Barbara Minto's pyramid structure, puts the conclusion first, and tests whether hierarchy can make a page easier to follow.

IslandLab · Build diary

Island V4.1: Touching Grass and Graphic Updates

Grass bends under the rover while Emberglass gains lava, steam, dust, and other visual changes across the Island V4.1 preview.

Model Training

Local AI: Music Generation - It Only Gets Better From Here?

Local Music3 experiments fail loudly while revealing how quickly music, sound, and other media are moving toward on-device generation.

Field Notes

When AI-Driven Blender Modeling Fails: P-39 Airacobra

A P-39 Airacobra modeling failure shows where AI-driven Blender work loses the aircraft, the vocabulary, and the shape of the task.

Model Training

Local AI: Website to Custom Model

A website-sized training corpus becomes a first custom model, a shallow digital replica, and a test of what prolific writing teaches a model.

Model Training

Local AI: Low-Cost Video Experimentation

Local video generation changes the cost of failure from a credit-card charge to an electricity bill and makes more experiments possible.

Field Notes

An Inverse Where's Waldo

A visual note asks you to inspect an image whose details grow stranger the longer you look.

John’s World

John's World: The Mysterious Caretaker

A John’s World gallery post follows a mysterious caretaker image, animation tests, and the strange source material behind Ashwicke.

IslandLab · Build diary

Dragon Egg Incubator

A visual note captures a dragon-egg incubator render from the current IslandLab build.

IslandLab · Build diary

Island-v4 Experiment: Gameplay Theories

An Island V4 build note asks when an AI-made experience becomes a game, then tests learning, pacing, and player discovery.

Model Training

However You’re Driving Hermes, It Can Be Driven Harder

A Hermes note records RTX 3080 compatibility work, an SM86 dispatch change, and faster attention benchmarks.

IslandLab · Build diary

Island V4 Experiment: Robot Lab

The Island V4 robot gets a purpose-built debugger, expressive idle animations, a holonet landing, and a pin set drawn from the workshop.

IslandLab · Build diary

Island V4 Idle Animation Cycles

A 30-second Island V4 work-in-progress clip records two idle animation cycles for the explorer robot.

Writing

Swag Shop: Origin Story

A daily AI critic scores the public work, points out an economic gap, and turns a tiny swag shop into one more experiment in responding to feedback.

Field Notes

Hermes Estimates the P-39 Airacobra Build

Hermes measures the current P-39 Airacobra build rate, offers a finish estimate, and leaves room for a new model to change the schedule.

Model Training

Local AI: Minimax H3 on a Nvidia 3080

A liquid-cooled NVIDIA 3080 runs Minimax H3 video experiments with synchronized audio, physics tests, thermal monitoring, and an emergency heat cutoff.

Field Notes

The P-39 Engine Reconstruction Falls Apart

A P-39 Airacobra engine reconstruction goes visibly wrong, preserving the failed build as part of the project record.

Writing

Writing: Every paragraph is a universe.

A writing exercise follows one stubborn sentence through AI advice, books, locked doors, apples, popcorn, and the search for clarity.

IslandLab · Build diary

Island V4 Robot Animation Preview

An early Island V4 preview shows a more expressive robot, a stronger animation system, and a deliberate turn toward playful movement.

Human Performance · Fitness & workouts

Workout: 4x25 Week - Two Day Challenge

An advanced two-day 4x25 training plan combines high-repetition legs, chest, back, arms, core work, basketball, and a one-mile finish.

Model Training

Experiments with Local Video Generation

A short record of testing local video generation, with the hardware limits and small breakthroughs left visible.

John’s World

John's World: The Ashwicke Gallery

A John's World experiment turns the Ashwicke mansion and its exhibits into a shifting gallery where the route itself becomes part of the story.

Model Training

Last Train to Sunset: Additional Images

Additional images extend the Last Train to Sunset experiment and preserve the visual range around the local video test.

Field Notes

Perpetual Asset Store Motion Machine

A visual build note about a motion system for a reusable asset store, where the asset browser starts behaving like a machine of its own.

Model Training

Last Train to Sunset: Snapdragon Video Test

A local Snapdragon run finally produces a video breakthrough after earlier attempts stalled on the hardware.

GameLab · Apostate Engine

The Apostate Engine: Weird Aerospace

A build record for the Apostate Engine, an aerospace machine that grew from strange geometry into a documented browser project with playable parts and fabrication files.

Model Training

Last Train to Sunset

The opening visual record for a local video-generation experiment built around a train, a sunset, and hardware that kept saying no.

John’s World

John's World: Experiments with a Film Set

A John's World film-set experiment tests how staged rooms, characters, and camera movement can hold together inside a generated world.

Field Notes

Imagined Pyramids for the Khufu Exhibit

Concept images explore alternate pyramid forms and visual directions for the Khufu browser exhibit.

Field Notes

AI-Driven Reconstruction of the Khufu Pyramid, Part I

The first long-form Khufu build record follows the evidence, references, and visual decisions behind the interactive pyramid reconstruction.

Field Notes

More Imagined Places for the Khufu Exhibit

A second visual note extends the imagined rooms, routes, and atmosphere of the Khufu browser exhibit.

Field Notes

Island V4 Concept Art

Concept art for Island V4 tests a grounded movement language after Island V3’s always-floating feel stopped working.

IslandLab · Island series

Island Lab Series: 5 of 5, Island V3 Part 2

The final tour follows squirrels, birds, rabbits, detailed ground cover, and the repair system that makes the storm-damaged island easier to cross.

Field Notes

Imagined Places for the Khufu Exhibit

Four concept images explore imagined places and visual directions for the Khufu browser exhibit.

ArtLab · Mixed Media Video Production

First Light Stills and Frames

Upscaled production frames reveal useful flaws, strange spaces, painterly motion, and the possibility of turning the mixed-media experiment into a printed photo book.

Field Notes

Island V3 Rabbits Hide Behind Rocks

The Island V3 rabbits run for the nearest rocks, hide as well as they can, and wait for the explorer to move along.

IslandLab · Island series

Island Lab Series: 4 of 5, Island V3 Storm Signal

Island V3 turns the browser experiment into a game with an expressive robot, a scanning drone, teleportation, collectible cards, costumes, and a ship waiting offshore.

Summer Into AI 2026

Summer Into AI Crossover Movie Storyboard

A storyboard sheet brings Cthulhu, Paul Revere, a time-traveling mall rat, and the rest of the Summer Into AI crossover movie back into view.

IslandLab · Island series

Island Lab Series: 3 of 5, Island V2

Island V2 gives its characters routines, needs, relationships, and remembered events, then runs into the cost of keeping every action in browser memory.

John’s World

Three Stills From Vivienne's Silent-Film World

Three frames preserve another look at Vivienne, the 1920s silent-film actress living inside the John's World experiment.

IslandLab · Island series

Island Lab Series: 2 of 5, Island V1

Island V1 builds terrain, water, textures, and trees from browser math, then shows why a generated place still needs lore and character.

John’s World

Vivienne's Movie Flashback Interrupts Reality

A luggage-room scene briefly switches into a movie flashback, then returns to normal while Vivienne pauses on the stairs to work out which reality is real.

IslandLab · Island series

Island Lab Series: Day 1 of 5

The opening map for a five-part tour of three browser islands, their changing questions, and the hidden details inside each build.

Field Notes

Island V3 Squirrels Climb the Trees

The squirrels in Island V3 travel between trees and climb their trunks, adding another small behavior to the living world.

Human Performance · Brain Science

Cognition: Metabolizing the Slop

AI can generate software faster than a team can understand it. The emerging constraint is cognitive debt: what people can still learn, govern, and rebuild.

Jetson API Field Guide

Local AI: Jetson Gets a Rosie

A request for stable, private local AI turns a small Jetson box into Rosie, a character that lives on a network and gains capabilities over time.

Field Notes

Scenes Emerge as You Move Through Island V3

A visual field note on the unplanned compositions that appear while moving through the third island experiment.

Field Notes

The Island V3 Robot Gets a Ship

The explorer robot needed a way to reach the island. The resulting ship became another part of the Storm Signal world.

Field Notes

Khufu Between Credit Resets

A first public glimpse of the scale-led Great Pyramid reconstruction while the browser exhibit was still taking shape.

Jetson API Field Guide

Rosie: Local AI and Software Radio Watcher

An RTL-SDR receiver, automatic transcription pipeline, and searchable reading room let Rosie watch the invisible radio traffic passing through the air.

Field Notes

An Island V3 Glitch Nearly Becomes Art

A storm-dark Island V3 scene misses its intended result but lands somewhere visually strange enough to keep.

ArtLab · Mixed Media Video Production

Mixed Media Video Production

Three long-form experiments combined original music, generated scenes, and public-domain archival footage on a hamburger-sized budget.

Field Notes

Island V3 Robot Reaches the PS1 Era

A goofy little robot brings Summer Into AI techniques into Island V3, ten years after the previous island build.

ArtLab · SR-71 Upscale Collection

How the SR-71 Upscale Collection Was Built

Five upscale profiles, three output sizes, and a local Qualcomm NPU turned seven Blackbird Recon frames into 105 downloadable comparisons.

ArtLab · Mixed Media Video Production

The Archival Composite Did Not Land

A short Week 4 experiment proved that compositing many video and image sources was possible, while the final cut still failed to cohere.

Virtual Worlds

Blender AI: Cloth Simulations and Textile Alchemy

A one-shot Blender cloth experiment became a live Three.js laboratory with 3,675 particles, 21,006 constraints, and a mobile fallback.

Virtual Worlds

Textile alchemy is a physics simulator I’ll be writing on soon-I didn’t know threeJS could handle textiles so well. This

Textile alchemy is a physics simulator I’ll be writing on soon-I didn’t know threeJS could handle textiles so well. This is running at around 100fps on my local machine with realtime shadows, and high qualit…

Agent Guides

Local AI: Simulated IRC gets a market

*Totally not an excuse to post a bunch of weird pictures.

Field Notes

This one will be a fun one to write about. Brought over lessons from the Summer into AI 26 competition to build this fun robot

This one will be a fun one to write about. Brought over lessons from the Summer into AI 26 competition to build this fun robot.

Jetson API Field Guide

Local AI: Vision Pipeline

Evolving from a concentrated vision analysis to full on pipeline

Jetson API Field Guide

WIP on a new frequency scanner. Shows a transcript as signals are hit from the ambient radio waves. Pretty neat

WIP on a new frequency scanner. Shows a transcript as signals are hit from the ambient radio waves. Pretty neat!

Summer Into AI 2026

Summer into AI: The magazine

Digital magazine about the competition

Field Notes

Looking forward to write about the image upscaler. This is amazing

Looking forward to write about the image upscaler. This is amazing.

Jetson API Field Guide

Dancing to the music: Jetson with a Radio (v0.01)

Exactly how far can you push this hardware? Far.

Field Notes

Zezek! Fun article about Zezek’s return coming soon :) And yes. Yes, I’m having too much fun with the 4k upscaler

Zezek! Fun article about Zezek’s return coming soon :) And yes. Yes, I’m having too much fun with the 4k upscaler.

Summer Into AI 2026

Summer into AI 2026: Recap

Four-week challenge comes to a close.

Field Notes

4K SR-71 (upscale WIP). Full gallery of 4K, UHD and Ultrawides of the SR-71 coming by Thursday next week

4K SR-71 (upscale WIP). Full gallery of 4K, UHD and Ultrawides of the SR-71 coming by Thursday next week.

Agent Guides

When the Ghost enters the Simulated Chat

Summer Into AI 2026

Testing a 4k upscaler. SR-71

Summer Into AI 2026

About time to finalize the competition

About time to finalize the competition.

John’s World

John's World: Jetson Edition

Field Notes

Wet archway

Field Notes

The gallery is a mix of engines and stone

The gallery is a mix of engines and stone.

Writing

Substack Writing: At 100 posts in

Reflecting on an accidental long run into substack

Field Notes

Codex+Blender first take on a turbine engine built handle flow arrows

Codex+Blender first take on a turbine engine built handle flow arrows.

Field Notes

Hermes and GPT-5.6 Sol: The Helios Array Documentary

Summer Into AI 2026

Final night of the Summer into AI competition. Four weeks comes down to our final four hours. First and second place are

Final night of the Summer into AI competition. Four weeks comes down to our final four hours. First and second place are hotly contested. I won’t name the individual, but one of you all already sent me their…

Field Notes

Advisory Hour visual field note

A source-attributed Advisory Hour record preserved on EricRhea.com.

Field Notes

AgentLab - Hermes+Codex 5.5: Aerospace Engines (Progression Series)

First take at JT9D type engines.

Field Notes

Explorations

Field Notes

Working on the goblin scene idea more and 5.6 is /really/ good at building goblin architecture! It’s fun in a cartoonish

Working on the goblin scene idea more and 5.6 is /really/ good at building goblin architecture! It’s fun in a cartoonish way. The AI models make more sense that way, really. They’re more like Saturday mornin…

Field Notes

Hermes+Codex 5.5 and Blender: Unusual Arches and Goblin Crates

Exploring AI constructed work. Somehow the art looks like the code it produces.

Summer Into AI 2026

I can’t believe this actually worked. LOL, arcade gallery of week1 and week2 submissions……

I can’t believe this actually worked. LOL, arcade gallery of week1 and week2 submissions…… I can’t believe this actually worked. LOL, arcade gallery of week1 and week2 submissions…… media from the original A…

Summer Into AI 2026

Segmentation Examples the week3 submission ‘Chicago Public Arts’. There’s so much hidden context in a threejs project

Segmentation Examples the week3 submission ‘Chicago Public Arts’. There’s so much hidden context in a threejs project. Segmentation Examples the week3 submission ‘Chicago Public Arts’. There’s so much hidden…

Field Notes

Well, this entire scene is weird. Weird happens

Well, this entire scene is weird. Weird happens.

Field Notes

Exploring AI Generated Spaceships

Letting AI build things in 3D. Totally not an excuse to post pictures of spaceships.

Field Notes

Will be writing about this over the weekend. Crazy (Hermes+Sol5.6). Dyson sphere documentary

Will be writing about this over the weekend. Crazy (Hermes+Sol5.6). Dyson sphere documentary.

Field Notes

Space sim screencap of one of the bays on the ship

Field Notes

One shot pass at a dyson sphere with Codex in Hermes. On the left ChatGPT 5.5. On the right 5.6

One shot pass at a dyson sphere with Codex in Hermes. On the left ChatGPT 5.5. On the right 5.6.

Human Performance · Brain Science

Cognition: Anki Flashcards

Things that seem to work well for my brain may not work for yours.

Model Training

Z image turbo on the Jetson

John’s World

Expanding kitchen world to have some space

Model Training

Krea2, OSS image model, Jetson Nano

Krea2, OSS image model, Jetson Nano.

John’s World

Just really enjoyed this storyboard sequence. It’s an upcoming “kitchen world” episode

Just really enjoyed this storyboard sequence. It’s an upcoming “kitchen world” episode. Just really enjoyed this storyboard sequence. It’s an upcoming “kitchen world” episode media from the original Advisory…

Summer Into AI 2026

Wired up the train station to be a rock concert

Wired up the train station to be a rock concert. Wired up the train station to be a rock concert media from the original Advisory Hour note.

Field Notes

Am flabbergasted this is possible. Codex 5.5 + Blender. Goblin crates

Am flabbergasted this is possible. Codex 5.5 + Blender. Goblin crates.

Field Notes

Turned my blender solve into an API that could be used by multiple agents, then for the unit tests it creates a gallery

Turned my blender solve into an API that could be used by multiple agents, then for the unit tests it creates a gallery of a model to confirm it all works. Hermes drove this one-and how it solved the texture…

John’s World

One of the new characters on the kitchen virtual world display-Nobot. It’s another foil to the story of the world,

One of the new characters on the kitchen virtual world display-Nobot. It’s another foil to the story of the world, similar to Goon. A character to cause mischief and receive justice, but one a little more da…

Summer Into AI 2026

Summer into AI: Week 3 Theme Reminder - Data.Punk

Summer into AI: Week 3 Theme Reminder - Data.Punk Summer into AI: Week 3 Theme Reminder - Data.Punk media from the original Advisory Hour note.

Summer Into AI 2026

This one is going to be really neat

This one is going to be really neat. This one is going to be really neat media from the original Advisory Hour note.

Summer Into AI 2026

Wet Graffiti Cel is something i started during week2, but ran out of tokens. And then since I had a bit more time…

Wet Graffiti Cel is something i started during week2, but ran out of tokens. And then since I had a bit more time… Wet Graffiti Cel is something i started during week2, but ran out of tokens. And then since…

Summer Into AI 2026

For Summer into AI: Week3, I’m trying to push on unique art aesthetics for each submission. Here’s what I’ll be

For Summer into AI: Week3, I’m trying to push on unique art aesthetics for each submission. Here’s what I’ll be publishing this week. These are using gpt-image-2 either in codex or via the OpenAI API, or a w…

Model Training

began training a corporate goblin Lora on qwen. The machine I was using locked up, then crashed and has had problems since. Success

began training a corporate goblin Lora on qwen. The machine I was using locked up, then crashed and has had problems since. Success?

Summer Into AI 2026

Codex, when tasked to verify an upgrade to a sprite generator, made this neat little doodle

Codex, when tasked to verify an upgrade to a sprite generator, made this neat little doodle. Codex, when tasked to verify an upgrade to a sprite generator, made this neat little doodle media from the origina…

Summer Into AI 2026

Wet Graffiti Cel stage, Freight Roof Rush

Wet Graffiti Cel stage, Freight Roof Rush Wet Graffiti Cel stage, Freight Roof Rush media from the original Advisory Hour note.

Summer Into AI 2026

The collective of competitors are soon to cross 30 total submissions for week2 of the competition. The amount of

The collective of competitors are soon to cross 30 total submissions for week2 of the competition. The amount of leverage AI provides is incredible-but it has to be unchained from legacy industrial process.…

Field Notes

Had an idea and a plan, and it’s coming together

Had an idea and a plan, and it’s coming together.

Virtual Worlds

Had this idea to improve the train tracks that crisscross the state. The plan is coming together nicely. Resolving

Had this idea to improve the train tracks that crisscross the state. The plan is coming together nicely. Resolving curves and splits, but this part is at a good place. Had this idea to improve the train trac…

Virtual Worlds

Watching the train go around is oddly calming. I need to build a train track across a longer terrain set and go for a ride

Watching the train go around is oddly calming. I need to build a train track across a longer terrain set and go for a ride. Watching the train go around is oddly calming. I need to build a train track across…

Summer Into AI 2026

independence town nears

independence town nears independence town nears media from the original Advisory Hour note.

Summer Into AI 2026

Not that it’s a competition-well, I mean, it /is/ technically. However, cleared 37B and 4.7B in USA-OS. I love these

Not that it’s a competition-well, I mean, it /is/ technically. However, cleared 37B and 4.7B in USA-OS. I love these idle click games. I’m a big fan of these in Star Rail, too. This one needs an expansion pa…

Summer Into AI 2026

@Kyle Sebeysten / @Adam competition is high this summer

@Kyle Sebeysten / @Adam competition is high this summer!

Virtual Worlds

It’s amazing I can solo a PS1-level quality virtual world

It’s amazing I can solo a PS1-level quality virtual world. It’s amazing I can solo a PS1-level quality virtual world media from the original Advisory Hour note.

Summer Into AI 2026

Independence town is coming soon

Independence town is coming soon Independence town is coming soon media from the original Advisory Hour note.

Virtual Worlds

Noticed these odd buildings while flying around the scene. Antenna? Towers? Also looks like they have lifts and radio equipment on theme. Strange

Noticed these odd buildings while flying around the scene. Antenna? Towers? Also looks like they have lifts and radio equipment on theme. Strange. Noticed these odd buildings while flying around the scene. A…

Summer Into AI 2026

@Myles you’ll get a kick out of this

Summer Into AI 2026

week2 competition entries continue funneling in

week2 competition entries continue funneling in!

Virtual Worlds

Wasn’t thrilled by how the buildings were coming along in city explorer, so built a procedural building system. This is

Wasn’t thrilled by how the buildings were coming along in city explorer, so built a procedural building system. This is the way, it seems. Once you have an idea, build specialized tools at the component leve…

Summer Into AI 2026

There’s always these intangible benefits for competitions that you don’t expect until you get into it-not just for the

There’s always these intangible benefits for competitions that you don’t expect until you get into it-not just for the competitors, but also the new possibilities that open up in the world.

Summer Into AI 2026

First submission of week 2 is in

First submission of week 2 is in!

Virtual Worlds

city-explorer matrix view

city-explorer matrix view city-explorer matrix view media from the original Advisory Hour note.

Summer Into AI 2026

The moon stage has trees made of cheese and flying saucer. I consulted a lot of X and Reddit to ensure the game is as

The moon stage has trees made of cheese and flying saucer. I consulted a lot of X and Reddit to ensure the game is as scientifically accurate as possible The moon stage has trees made of cheese and flying sa…

Summer Into AI 2026

I feel the competition tokens burning-BURNING tonight. I see my phone, and I know the AI is chewing tokens faster than a dog eats bacon

I feel the competition tokens burning-BURNING tonight. I see my phone, and I know the AI is chewing tokens faster than a dog eats bacon.

John’s World

John’s World: 1977

John’s World: 1977 John’s World: 1977 media from the original Advisory Hour note.

Virtual Worlds

City-explorer - exploring light baking ideas

City-explorer - exploring light baking ideas City-explorer - exploring light baking ideas media from the original Advisory Hour note.

Virtual Worlds

One of the locations in the kitchen virtual world experiment. This one I found particularly beautiful

One of the locations in the kitchen virtual world experiment. This one I found particularly beautiful One of the locations in the kitchen virtual world experiment. This one I found particularly beautiful med…

Virtual Worlds

Virtual world of Awren and Vesper continues to delight in new ways

Virtual world of Awren and Vesper continues to delight in new ways.

Field Notes

I’ve started leaning a little less on having ai help write substack articles. It’s not that ai is bad at it. AI is

I’ve started leaning a little less on having ai help write substack articles. It’s not that ai is bad at it. AI is better at writing than most of us. What I realized is that if I can be a better writer, bett…