Field notes from an AI Lead at Gravity9
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You + a model
Use AI thoughtfully in the work you already do—from asking better questions to checking what comes back.
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My brother, who has never written a line of code, and a software engineer with years behind him asked me the same question in the same month: I want to get into AI, where exactly do I start? There are three answers, they are different jobs, and the order you take them in matters.
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On a UK healthcare platform build, one QA engineer triaged every failure from a Playwright suite spanning twenty feature areas. This is the agent that took most of that over, and how to run a free version of it.
Shortlisting creators against a campaign brief used to take a month. The rebuilt pipeline does it in minutes, and the language model appears exactly twice, at the two ends, where it decides nothing at all.
The other half of my working life looks nothing like building with AI. Runs that last weeks, hardware failing while you use it, and a feedback loop measured in days. What the work actually consists of, and who can afford it.
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