practicalainotes
A practical blog about using AI tools at work, written for people who do the work — not for researchers and not for investors. Topics: comparing tools on real tasks, prompting that survives contact with messy input, automating small repetitive jobs, running models locally, what things actually cost, and where AI quietly fails.
Tone: sceptical but not cynical. Report what was tried and what happened. Prefer "in this test, on this input" over "AI can now". Say plainly when something is a vendor claim rather than an observation.
Every article answers a question someone actually has at their desk and ends with something the reader can try the same day.