I Want to Use AI
The author expresses a desire to use AI as a beneficial tool rather than a distraction. They emphasize the importance of being an active operator and maintaining control over AI's capabilities. The article outlines various ways to leverage AI for personal growth, productivity, and creativity while avoiding dependency.
- ▪The author believes AI can improve lives if used wisely.
- ▪They want to use AI as a tool to enhance productivity and free up time.
- ▪The author emphasizes the importance of maintaining control and judgment when using AI.
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Record
| Original publisher | Senko Rašić |
| Canonical URL | https://blog.senko.net/how-i-want-to-use-ai |
| Publication time | Sat, 30 May 2026 16:26:51 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-30T16:39:39.441Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-30T16:39:39.441Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
How I want to use AIMay 30, 2026There's a lot of psychosis around AI. My belief is that as a technology, it can both be used in a way that improves the lives of people, and leveraged in a way that will harm us. Like in the parable of two wolves, the one that wins is the one we feed. So how do we feed “good AI”? Here's how I, personally, want to use it: As a tool. It's here to help me, not to steal my attention or get fed by me (I have a cat for that). I want to be the active operator, not merely a clueless user or an unsuspecting audience. To grow. As a research tool, an infinitely patient tutor who, true, might occasionally be wrong. Not as a crutch to avoid thinking. To remove the grind. Some hard things are worth doing. Some are not.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Senko Rašić.
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