I asked AI for help with DIY. It told me to build a subfloor on rotting stumps, but also taught me valuable lessons | Myke Bartlett

Key points

• I am not, by nature, an early adopter.
• There comes a point in our lives where change becomes more irritating than exciting and, I suspect, I reached it sooner than most.
• But when a workplace recently tasked me with exploring practical applications for AI, I spotted an opportunity to cast off my luddite inclinations.
• It turned out AI was very good at mimicking most of the things I could already do.
• Irrespective of quality, it could churn out articles, reports, presentations, fiction, even podcasts with stammering hosts.