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A signal worth using lowers your stress, clarifies a decision, or buys you time. Most of the AI in your feed does the opposite.
The test for whether an AI tool earned its place in your day is simple. After a week of using it, do you feel calmer or louder? Clearer or noisier? More decisive or more anxious?
A useful tool fades into the background. It saves you the boring half of a task and gives you back the part where you actually had to think. You forget you used it.
A noisy tool keeps you doom-scrolling capabilities, comparing models, refreshing release notes. It generates more inputs than your week can absorb. It is theatre, dressed as productivity. Cancel it.