I feel positively overwhelmed by AI

I've had a certain feeling about AI that I couldn't put into words lately. But it perfectly catches itself in what I would call a sense of positive overwhelm.

A friend of mine is into gardening and edible plants, and she mentioned that she was looking for a quiz about edible plants to train her knowledge. It was already possible to build that before, but in today's world it's done in a couple of hours tops.

I pull up Gemini. I put in the FastHTML documentation and build a simple webapp. I ask it to deep search a list of edible plants that occur in north west Europe. I ask it to write a script to gather images from a public API to gather images for the plants in the list. It's done in an evening and my friend now has a quiz.

Ofcourse this is an easy app to build, but there's just so many possibilities to build stuff all of a sudden.

Then there's learning. I can now put in a couple of resources into NotebookLM and really deep dive into a topic. I don't have to search too long to find what gaps I have in my knowledge that I need to fill up.

I have three lists of ingredients for some recipes I want to make next week. Put it in the order of a supermarket.

I'm training for a marathon. I'm doing four runs a week now, one fast, one marathon pace, an easy one and a longer one. Make a logical schedule and increase the volume by 10% for the coming weeks. Also plan out when to do intermediate races, like a 10K and half marathon.

And I'm very well aware that it's not all perfect. Sometimes the answers are wrong, sometimes the answers are really generic. I ask it to remove an em dash and it doesn't remove it. But if you use it for the things that it does work for. It works great.

There's so much more stuff I can do now, at such a faster pace. And I'm still trying to wrap my head around it, to make sure I keep up.

Every second counts.