Ideas Weave Every Narrative with AI.
Most AI-generated documents are unreadable because the model is designed for reasoning, not for natural language. The fix isn’t better prompts—it’s choosing the right model and ruthlessly pruning the context you feed it. A product manager’s hard‑won lesson from testing Grok, Claude, and GPT on real project docs.
McMaster-Carr just released an AI tool that translates plain-English descriptions into exact industrial SKUs — and in doing so, proved that the real value of AI isn’t content generation. It’s intent translation. While Silicon Valley builds chatbots that write emails, a 120-year-old industrial supply company just solved a multi-trillion-dollar discovery problem with a modest beta link: ‘Help me decide.’
AI ETL promises to replace complex SQL with plain English. But that shift from deterministic code to probabilistic outputs introduces a hidden risk: you now have to audit a confident black box instead of writing clear logic. One hallucinated column name can corrupt a production database. The real work isn’t eliminated—it’s just moved to a harder place.