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Posts with scenarios, questions, and small examples for thinking about AI tools. Different experiences, including disagreement, can change the questions we ask.

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Two fingers on the implant. The sheet, blank.

He tries to transmit his intention through a fictional implant. The tool still has a blank sheet and no idea which folder it should preserve.

Two side-by-side scenes show hands using a browser on a computer and an app on a phone. Blue circles highlight the small microphone and listen-to-the-answer controls in both fictional interfaces.

Voice · Fiction

The question came in by voice. The answer needs a way out too.

The microphone sits next to the question. Hearing the answer may require a different control or a trip through a menu.

A man points to an annotated book while the tool contradicts him.

I asked for help. I got an argument.

The book is open, the question is specific, and the context has already been explained. But before helping, the tool demands that the person justify the question itself.

Illustrative scene of computer research or assembly, with a person and a white-and-blue robot.

Accessibility · Task

“You can buy it.” But why?

A teenager wants to build a gaming PC. A researcher wants to run models. Before recommending the parts, the tool needs to understand the work.

A blonde writer works in an office with two monitors, one showing published books and the other a refused research request. In the scene beside it, the same woman receives a fictional literary award. The white-and-blue robot is present in both situations.

Fiction · Objection and conversation

She asked for research. The tool assigned her an intent.

The writer wants to research the Mapinguari and its associations with extraterrestrials. The tool treats the topic as an intention before understanding the research.

Diverse people use computers and phones around the globe, with data centers distributed across the continents and Kuaapy's white-and-blue robot with open arms.

Before we build, we want to listen.

We want to build an AI service from people's real needs. Your experience can reveal what we still don't see.

Fiction · Manual and conditions of use

The toaster came with a manual. The AI didn't.

He accepted the terms. When the tool refused his research request, he started another search: figuring out which rule he had accepted.

A machine receives green data and recirculates it, scrambling conversation bubbles inside a sphere.

Experiences with AI

I corrected the conversation. The conversation corrected me back.

When the tool’s assumptions come back as context, correcting the conversation can become the work itself.

A young man with dreadlocks laughs hard in front of an old computer, with a generic chat on the screen.

Experiences with AI

The computer was old. The next round was something new.

Playing, inventing challenges, and laughing at the answers can also be the purpose of using a tool.

RPG character miniatures with different equipment, in two rows on a table.

Ideas and experiences

My party has a wizard. The work is still mine.

You choose the roles and the way you organize your work.

Two scenes show the same man in a turban: excited about the nearly completed project and then disappointed by the notice to start another chat.

Ideas and experiences

The project still needed to be finished. The chat ended first.

The chat ends when little is left; saving files is not enough to resume the context.

A small robot studies examples and receives adapter modules; beside it, three variants contribute to a combined model.

Ideas and experiences

Your model doesn't have to start from scratch

What Axolotl and MergeKit are for in adapting and combining existing models.

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