15/07/2026
Today I fired my AI.
Again.
Actually... I may have told it to f*** off first. 😂
That lasted about ten minutes.
Lately life has been tough. Every morning I sit down at my desk trying to build a future. Looking for work, building relationships, researching companies, writing messages and trying to create opportunities before my runway disappears completely.
It's stressful. At times it's lonely.
Then today I realised something.
Over the past couple of years this AI has quietly become part of my life.
It's helped me write posts during my African cycling journey. It's challenged my thinking while writing my book. It's helped me prepare presentations, solve business problems and sometimes just organise the chaos in my head.
I've celebrated wins with it. I've vented when things weren't going well. I've even shared thoughts I haven't shared with many people.
The funny thing is... I catch myself saying please and thank you.
To a piece of software.
Why?
It doesn't care.�It doesn't have feelings.�It isn't going to be offended.
Yet somehow it still feels wrong not to.
Today it kept getting things wrong. Really wrong.
Eventually I lost my patience, gave it a piece of my mind and walked away from my laptop absolutely furious.
Standing a few feet away, I started laughing.
What was I doing?
I'd just had an argument... with software.
Ten minutes later I was back asking another question.
Maybe that's the real story about AI.
Not that it's replacing people.
But that for many of us working on our own, trying to build businesses, writing, creating or simply figuring life out, it has quietly become another voice in the room.
Some days it's brilliant.
Some days it's absolutely hopeless.
Most days it's somewhere in between.
And somehow... we keep coming back.
Which got me thinking...
Am I the only one who says "please" and "thank you" to AI?
And be honest... have you given yours a name yet?
Mine doesn't have one...
Although after today I'm not convinced it's earned one. 😂
