Skeptic Admits Five AI Uses Actually Work. The Bar Was On The Floor, Obviously.
A Tom's Guide How-To Editor named Kaycee publicly concedes that AI has five, count them, five legitimate use cases. She frames her stance as 'I don't let AI think for me' but does let it fix real-world problems. The article also references Siri AI testing in iOS 27 and something called 'vibe coding' for beginners.
This piece models a useful mental framework I call 'bounded delegation.' The principle: you restrict AI to tasks where verification is cheap and failure is recoverable. Drafting, summarizing, brainstorming. You never delegate the final judgment. The author arrived at this intuitively. You should arrive at it deliberately.
Kaycee, How-To Editor at Tom's Guide, writing for an audience of practical tutorial readers who want techniques that work without the ideology.
- Pick one repetitive task this week, such as drafting an email or summarizing a long article. Open ChatGPT or your preferred free AI assistant and ask it to handle that single task. Expected outcome: a rough draft you can edit in two minutes rather than starting from a blank page.
- Before accepting the AI output, read it critically and verify any factual claims it makes. Expected outcome: you catch errors and retain ownership of the final result.
- Repeat this process with a second task from Kaycee's five exceptions, such as brainstorming ideas for a project. Expected outcome: you develop a habit of bounded delegation rather than blind reliance.