Don’t get bot hurt. Get bot even.

You open your laptop to do one responsible thing. Five minutes later, there are 14 tabs open and one is a recipe you will never make.

We used to blame ourselves.

One tool to summarize. One place to draft. One neat, confident answer instead of twelve chaotic search results.

It sounded peaceful. Instead, this happens.

You write an email. It’s fine.
You run it through another tool. Slightly sharper.
You try one more version. A little warmer.

Now you’re staring at three perfectly reasonable versions of yourself, like you’re casting a movie about your own personality.

Nothing is broken. That’s the problem.

So you toggle. Compare. Adjust tone by two degrees. Swap a sentence. Wonder which one sounds more like you — or more like the you who gets promoted.

The tabs aren’t just on your screen anymore. They’re versions.
We didn’t reduce clutter. We refined it.

Final Bot Thought

AI didn’t create chaos. It created choice. Choice takes work. Mess is easy to close. Three polished drafts require judgment. That’s the new tab problem.

More tools didn’t reduce friction. They redistributed it.

Bot Talk: The year AI became the wallpaper

AI wasn’t the headliner at last month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It was the wallpaper.

You didn’t go looking for it. You tripped over it.

Cars that co-drive. Scales that coach longevity. Locks that unlock themselves. Devices that don’t wait anymore — they suggest.

The intelligence has moved into the background. And when technology becomes ambient, so do its opinions.

🚀 Coming up next week …

Not every decision needs a bot in the room.

AI made it easier to generate options.
That doesn’t mean you need them.

Next week: the discipline of not clicking. Sometimes the smartest move with AI is not using it.

Don’t get bot hurt. Get bot even.