Hmmm, just finished reading an article about PM and AI and what the future holds. Apparently AI is a panacea for all ills and life is about to get better for everyone… should be about another 20 minutes or so and then we reach nirvana. I don't want to be a naysayer but maybe, just maybe, the author of that article is a tad optimistic. My take is that AI is like a very sharp sword - it will absolutely cut both ways. I think we're already seeing both positive and negative impacts and both will likely become more significant over time. So, is stuff going happen? It already is. Will all of that stuff be good? Not a chance. But, there will be good and that's the opportunity!

So much talking, reading, more talking and fourth hand story telling… I had a minor epiphany the other day - all my reading and thinking about AI isn't actually accomplishing much, other than scratching some sort of Calvinistic itch. I seem to learn more about AI by actually using it! Everything from content building and strategy review to menus for dinner parties. So, a new resolution (timely I know); less reading and more doing.

Holiday season is in full swing… Santa has come and gone but there's still enough champagne in the fridge for New Year's!

Took an interesting "course" with Jeremy Utley - it reinforced my recent learning and thinking about AI: you need to work with it everyday. Not just as a tool but as a sounding board, an idea generator, a constructive critic (although it's so damn positive it's a bit weak at that). In other words as a partner.

I started a conversation yesterday with my AI (tweaked for what I think is important) about goals, personal and professional, for 2026. This conversation will continue all year I suspect… and it really is a conversation. To heck with typing - it's too artificial. People (at least me) talk! So, we're talking.

This begs the Turing test issue but that's for another day.

And for you project managers out there: I just responded to a PMI poll about what is my number one PM priority. There were five options. "Mastering AI tools for PM" is in first place with 64.7% of the vote… next closest is 11.8%… so, AI and PM is NOT going away in 2026!

Haven't posted in a bit as I
1. have been swamped and,
2. am not sure what to think about AI these days

Trying to keep up is almost a full time job… and yet, the changes, all breathlessly announced, don't seem to have really amounted to much in "real life". Is it just me? I use AI regularly but maybe need to up my game. There's much talk about using AI as a partner and not just a tool… perhaps this needs some practicing…

ChatGPT has just released a browser; needless to say, ChatGPT is embedded and allows users to take action directly in the browser. This was inevitable I think - how many users are defaulting to an AI now rather than a browser… when I ask a question I want an answer not a bunch of links to check out. But all the browsers out there will integrate AI… it's already happening actually.

But here's what I'm pondering… do I really want my AI enabled browser being able to track everything I do while using a browser? Like my banking? Email? Certainly ChatGPT is talking up their privacy controls but you'll excuse me for being a tad sceptical. Mind you, my browser can track all of this now… have we already crossed the privacy Rubicon?