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AI Field Note No. 3 — September 2026

Why I Usually Ask ChatGPT First

“You may find that the most useful part comes after the first answer.”

Most of the time, I open ChatGPT for a pretty simple reason: I’m trying to do something, and I want help figuring it out.

Sometimes that’s dinner. Sometimes it’s planning a day with my family, putting together a workout routine, or making a text message sound less clunky. Recently, I changed the seal in the toilet.

Nothing particularly groundbreaking. Just things that come up.

I was asked to write this month’s AI Insight, and I thought sharing a few of those examples might be helpful. If you’ve mostly used AI to ask a question and read the answer, there’s another part of the process worth trying

The full field note is available in the Member Library.