The best first AI project isn’t the most impressive one. It’s the one that annoys you most.
People pick their AI starting point the way they pick a gym routine — ambitious, impressive, and abandoned in two weeks. Then they conclude AI ‘doesn’t work for them.’
Flip it. Start with the small task that irritates you every single week:
The follow-up you always forget. The summary you rewrite by hand. The same question you answer ten times a week. The report you rebuild from scratch every Monday.
Why the annoying task wins:
- You know exactly what ‘good’ looks like, so you can tell if the output is right.
- It repeats, so a small saving compounds fast.
- It’s low-stakes. If it fails, nothing breaks — you just stop doing it.
And it builds the habit. The first win creates the appetite and the skill for the next one.
Fifty posts later, that’s the whole thread in one idea: AI rewards boring, specific, repeated problems — not big ambitions and good intentions.
Put this into practice
Pick the task that annoyed you most this week. That’s your first AI project — start there.
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