Lately, I have been studying ways to incorporate AI into my everyday life. My explorations confirm the original premise that moved me in that direction. What I can do now is to become a good AI pilot. I chose to learn how to work alongside it rather than fear replacement.
Image Generation
Each month brings new challenges as Midjourney evolves. Prompts that created stunning images last season now produce basic results. But this constant change teaches me something valuable: understanding how AI thinks. Once you learn to speak the language of one image generator, you can work with them all.
Last month, I got to know VisualElectric, and the results have greatly surprised me. I’ll probably get a Pro license this month, and we’ll focus on learning its particularities.
Language Models
I’ve been using ChatGPT and DeepSeek as my workhorses. They are great for crafting content from an unordered list of thoughts. I test identical prompts across both and combine their diverse outputs into something unique.
When I am writing content, I feed Claude takes the task further. It’s an excellent platform for revamping content because it adds a personal touch that I can control. It reads my previous work, understands my style, and helps maintain consistency across pieces.
Knowledge Management
The AI journey led me to explore the Second Brain concept. After diving into key resources [here and here], I discovered how AI can enhance personal knowledge management. Google’s NotebookLM showed me glimpses of this future, but that’s a story for another post.
Final Touches
To polish my work, I rely on Grammarly and Jetpack‘s Write Brief (formerly a plugin named Breve) in WordPress. Using the Flesch- Kincaid readability test results, these tools refine grammar, simplify complex words, and improve the reading experience.1
The line between my writing and AI assistance has blurred with all these AI collaborators, and I don’t love it. But I’m working toward a balance—to use AI more strategically but less frequently. Fighting this revolution feels futile. Instead, I prefer to start building an interesting relationship with it and prepare for the future.
- The Flesch–Kincaid readability tests are designed to indicate how difficult a passage in English is to understand. There are two tests: the Flesch Reading-Ease and the Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level. Although they use the same core measures (word length and sentence length), they have different weighting factors. ↩︎
