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Estella Johnson

• 21h

If AI feels overwhelming, you’re starting in the wrong place.

Executives don’t need 20 tools. They need 3 clear use cases:

• Thinking partner → organize ideas • Writing assistant → refine communication • Efficiency tool → reduce repetitive work

That’s it.

Start there. Build comfort. Expand later.

AI adoption doesn’t require complexity. It requires clarity.

I help leaders simplify AI so it actually gets used.

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Max Chechel

max

• Mar 23

I've been building websites for years. Agencies, freelance, now my own studio. We went from fully manual work to actually useful AI tools, and let's be real: it speeds things up and makes you more efficient. That's the value, nothing more. What no AI can give you, even as designers and devs get told they're cooked every other week 😆, is taste. Years of real practice, hard decisions on real projects, the eye that tells you something is off before you can explain why. That's not something you prompt your way into. Use AI, get more efficient with it. Just don't expect a couple of prompts to give you a top-grade website. That still takes a human who actually knows what they're doing.

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Shana Recker 🇨🇦

max

• Mar 23

Agreed 1000%!

Bob Vasic

pro

• Mar 24

Concur. The gap isn’t AI vs non-AI anymore, it’s operators vs spectators. Titles and surface-level “AI usage” are already noise. The only thing that matters now is output: who can consistently use AI to produce measurable results. Everything else gets filtered out.

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Denys Dod

pro

• Mar 24

The AAA-Game style “Hero” section was created using AI, but before that, I developed design rules for the AI agent, which consisted of 53 files and over 10,000 lines.