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Yesterday, she demanded that everyone (mom, dad, grandpa, grandma, dog) stop what they were doing and watch her do the itsy bitsy spider dance. She was quite graceful too, I had no idea she knew how to do the whole thing.

If someone wasn’t paying attention, she’d stop and point at them until they did pay attention, then she’d continue her dance.

Then shortly afterwards, we had our first serious meltdown because I wouldn’t let her walk and eat a banana at the same time.

Where did my baby go???? When did this opinionated toddler take over?

Everyone around me seems to find these tools useful, but I don’t see how. My husband pays for Claude and uses it heavily for his work. My mom friends say they use it for everything, for example researching stuff to buy and making schedules.

Every time I use it, I’m so unimpressed. Perhaps I am now old and bad at technology.

I’m moderately granola, so I tried to use it to find toddler water bottles that fit the criteria I was looking for. I even asked it to use certain subreddits and websites to source suggestions. The results it gave me back were meh, and it got a lot of facts wrong. It was just as much work to go to the website of each recommendation to verify the facts. In the end I ended up going with a bottle it didn’t even recommend after doing my own research.

Similarly, when researching electrolyte products, I wanted one without artificial sugars. So many of the ones it recommended had artificial sugars. Plus I couldn’t verify half of the claims it was making about the pros/cons of each product.

I tried to use it for work for brainless tasks. I wanted it to clean up some notes I had and turn them into bullet points. The result was unnecessarily wordy, and the way it cleaned them up no longer emphasized what I need it to focus on. It was faster and easier to just do it myself.

Engaging in a back and forth to try and get it to correct itself and understand what I’m asking, feels like a waste of time. I can just do the task myself.

What am I missing? I am desperate for an affordable way to simplify my life, offload some of the mental load, and to become more efficient/productive. But I can’t seem to figure out these tools. Is it that my prompting isn’t good? Is there a reliable source through which I can become better at it?

Yup, this weekend went exactly how you would imagine

I fear we’re encouraging it because it’s impossible to not laugh at some of her antics