You Cannot Spell “Pain” Without AI

This article started as some kind of brain dump. I kept having minor frustrations about the use of AI in our industry, so I started scribbling them down. I touch on a lot of different angles: the use of AI on social platforms, the needless reinventing of the wheel, focusing on the wrong outcomes, and the open web. The major TL;DR is that AI can be useful, but it’s not without consequences, and forced and performative adoption is harmful. Where we are AI is everywhere. It feels like it goes without saying, but it’s surprisingly new. It’s only late 2025 that coding models like Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2 became genuine game-changers. And although ChatGPT has been around since 2022, I feel like it’s only in 2024 that it became ubiquitous. When I joined Scilife back in October 2024, it wasn’t really much of a thing in our company. Documents and reports were written by humans, research and analysis were done on Google, and code was authored by engineers. We weren’t “orchestrating agents”, and it…