For the final week of my first month with AI, I decided to take it a little bit easier on myself. Rather than working through a strict list of tasks or focusing directly on any one project, I decided to haphazardly bounce around projects at my own pace.
I decided to adjust the format of the blog some. If I’m going to be approaching my AI work like I did this past week, then the blog needs to take a form that semi-reflects that. So rather than posting a blog a week, I’ve decided to at least post one blog per month to keep up with progress.
That isn’t to say that I won’t be posting other updates. For now, though, my progress isn’t restricted to one project.
I had originally set the goal of having version 1 of the website ready to launch by this post. Instead, several distractions in other projects emerged. That isn’t going to stop me from launching the website before I get another blog post finished. So hopefully, this will be the first visible post on the site. The skeleton of the site is built, all it needs now is a visual identity and some proper organization. Essentially, AI helped build the site, now I need to fill in the blanks.
But that’s about where the distractions started. In trying to plan out another website, I accidentally had GPT create a fully furnished site within the GPT ecosystem. I was originally trying to compile a pdf first to capture the details, but a slight error in prompting led to yet another expansion under what I’m calling Project Athena. It’s still underdeveloped and remains a private project, but Athena will function as my landing area for all my non-fiction work.
The distractions didn’t end there. With access to the paid tier of GPT tools, I set up a daily brief, every morning, that generates a list of potential project ideas. A lot of these projects get rejected because I’m just not interested in building them. The ones that survived got refined into other project ideas that neatly fit under the Project Daedalus umbrella. This ended up being a rather scattered process and developed as the week went on, but Daedalus has now been expanded to contain over 80 potential projects.
Seems like a lot. But they’re all for good use. When the website tinkering is done, we have plenty to work on to really get started. If the goal is to learn, then learn we shall.
Another distraction came in the form of expanding ideas in Project Hephaestus. I can’t say much about it right now, but Hephaestus is closer to becoming a reality than it was before the week started. The next steps involve laying down the groundwork to get the business arm of Arasmas Labs fully functional.
Then we have our biggest distraction of the week. I decided to take Project Theseus to the next level and decided to begin prototyping it on my home PC. I certainly have the specs for it. All that’s needed now is implementation. Currently, I’m working with Ollama and Qwen3:8B running locally on my machine. With GPT’s help, I’ll be modifying it to fit what I want to do with Theseus. Prototyping can be only as fun as I can make it. And I really don’t have much to report on Theseus beyond that.
I’m expecting a busy week next week, though, so I might not get done everything I want to do, but any progress will be well earned. For now, until life lets up a little bit, I may continue on with some of these distractions. I may refine website number 2 and bring it into fruition. I may continue working on Theseus. Hephaestus may be back-burnered until we work up the funds to move it any farther forward. Daedalus may see development start on one of its many projects. The Arasmas Labs site may finally get its version 1 launch.
The point is, right now, I have many options. The problem lies in the paradox of choice and not knowing where to begin first.
The solution lies in just diving in and getting something done.
For my first month with AI, I think I’ve gotten a lot done. I’ve certainly done much more than I was capable of doing previously. I’m discovering where AI ends and I begin. And that I think is probably one of the first most valuable lessons I can learn from all this. At the end of the day though, we all have to just shut the computer off and carry on with our lives.
AI can’t walk the dogs.
At least, not yet.