What did not work?
Many things appear to work at first, right. Most of the time, using AI seems great, until one spends a lot of time working out lots of important details. A bunch of prompts later...
Yeah.
Sometimes it is nice to begin with something, even if it is wrong. AI is great for that.
Funny how often it is we can write in response to errors! Out it comes! Like that fire hose trope.
In that vein:
Proposal templates, and other basic create tasks can start with a boost.
Oh, a surprising one was distilling complex ideas into simple, direct language!
And for code, I like getting a fragment, function, whatever all populated, ready for me to just start working with.
Bonus for languages I want to learn more about, or just learn. There are traps here. You have to run it with that in mind.
Trust, but verify.
What did not work:
Really counting on the things. And like most everyone I suppose, I will easily say I know better. Really, I do, but... [Insert in here.]
Filtering of various kinds.
I may add to this later.