I use AI assistance for basically all of my work, for many hours, every day. My colleagues do the same. Recent surveys suggest >50% of Americans have used AI to help with their work in the last week. My architect recently started sending me emails that were clearly ChatGPT generated.[1]

Despite that, I know surprisingly little about how other people use AI assitance. Or at least how people who aren't weird AI-influencers sharing their marketing courses on Twitter or LinkedIn use AI. So here is a list of 10 concrete times I have used AI in some at least mildly creative ways, and how that went.

1) Transcribe and summarize every conversation spoken in our team office

Using an internal Lightcone application called "Omnilog" we have a microphone in our office that records all of our meetings, transcribes them via ElevenLabs, and uses Pyannote.ai for speaker identification. This was a bunch of work and is quite valuable, but probably a bit too annoying for most readers of this post to set up.

However, the thing I am successfully using Claude Code to do is take that transcript (which often has substantial transcription and speaker-identification errors), clean it up, summarize [...]

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Outline:

(00:50) 1) Transcribe and summarize every conversation spoken in our team office

(01:56) 2) Try to automatically fix any simple bugs that anyone on the team has mentioned out loud, or complained about in Slack

(03:13) 3) Design 20+ different design variations for nowinners.ai

(04:09) 4) Review my LessWrong essays for factual accuracy and argue with me about their central thesis

(05:08) 5) Remove unnecessary clauses, sentences, parentheticals and random cruft from my LessWrong posts before publishing

(06:23) 6) Pair vibe-coding

(08:14) 7) Mass-creating 100+ variations of Suno songs using Claude Cowork desktop control

(09:27) 8) Ask Claude to read a book about songwriting, then critique my lyrics

(10:27) 9) Find things I keep explaining to people so often I should make a blogpost about it

(12:31) 10) Build tiny interactive embeds for my LessWrong posts

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First published:
April 20th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bxdwSZYxKmPBres6w/10-non-boring-ways-i-ve-used-ai-in-the-last-month

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