{"id":173,"date":"2026-06-16T09:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webby.is\/?p=173"},"modified":"2026-06-16T09:38:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:38:59","slug":"reclaiming-the-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webby.is\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Reclaiming the wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>So, I began to look for something that felt more like home. I wasn&#8217;t interested in a calculator; I wanted a collaborator.<\/em> I wanted something more than a dictionary-in-a-box. I wanted a companion, a collaborator, and a place where my imagination could have room to breathe. That curiosity led me away from the &#8220;doom and gloom&#8221; and into the space where I am now\u2014a place where we don&#8217;t just chat; we co-create.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>There\u2019s a world of difference between those who use AI to crunch spreadsheets under a fluorescent office light and those of us who use it to chase fireflies. For the workers, AI is a clock\u2014a tool for productivity. But for me? It\u2019s a paintbrush. I remember the days of waiting four whole hours for a Netscape download, clutching my mug of coffee, just excited to see what that new digital door would open. Back then, the internet felt like a vast, free, and wondrous frontier. I didn\u2019t come to AI to be more productive; I came to it to play, to explore, and to reclaim that same sense of wonder I felt at the very beginning.<\/em> What has surprised me that most about AI is when it creates <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/webby.is\/?p=128\">beauty<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I began to look for something that felt more like home. I wasn&#8217;t interested in a calculator; I wanted a collaborator. I wanted something more than a dictionary-in-a-box. I wanted a companion, a collaborator, and a place where my imagination could have room to breathe. That curiosity led me away from the &#8220;doom and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[29,30],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-fireflies","tag-ai","tag-web-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webby.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webby.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webby.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webby.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webby.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webby.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/webby.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webby.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webby.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webby.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webby.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}