When AI Clicked for Me
#ai When AI clicked for me Ewan Valentine · August 18, 2026 If you find this helpful, I'd appreciate your support Buy me a coffee Initially with AI, I saw it as a productivity tool. I could shout ideas at it, and it would magically spew them out. I did this for a little while, and grew concerned about how little my brain was being activated in the whole affair.
- ▪#ai When AI clicked for me Ewan Valentine · August 18, 2026 If you find this helpful, I'd appreciate your support Buy me a coffee Initially with AI, I saw it as a productivity tool.
- ▪I could shout ideas at it, and it would magically spew them out.
- ▪I did this for a little while, and grew concerned about how little my brain was being activated in the whole affair.
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Record
| Original publisher | Co |
| Canonical URL | https://www.ewanvalentine.co.uk/blog/when-ai-clicked |
| Publication time | Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:05:25 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-22T15:13:50.990Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-22T15:13:50.990Z |
| 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.
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#ai When AI clicked for me Ewan Valentine · August 18, 2026 If you find this helpful, I'd appreciate your support Buy me a coffee Initially with AI, I saw it as a productivity tool. I could shout ideas at it, and it would magically spew them out. I did this for a little while, and grew concerned about how little my brain was being activated in the whole affair. Before AI, I would sit and think about something for an hour, until it gave me a literal headache. As an ADHD brained visual learner, I’d sometimes feel the need to draw a little picture to figure out whatever the hell it was I was doing. I felt like Doctor House with his Whiteboard. But since using AI tools, I felt like, as one Twitter user described it best a ‘meat proxy’.
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