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  • Get your AI out of the browser

    An AI in a browser window can talk. An AI on your own computer can work: read, organise and edit files. Why this step makes the difference, and how you start safely.

    You actually become much more of a manager of work than an executor of work. I said that in a workshop, while we looked together at what happens when you give the AI access to one folder on your laptop. A messy downloads folder is tidied up, separate Excel files are merged into one overview, and a first version of a follow-up email is ready.

    The same AI, but no longer in the browser.

    If you want to try it yourself, copy the prompt at the bottom of this article and give it to your desktop app.

    Talking or working

    Most people know AI as a chat window in the browser. You ask a question, you get text back, and you copy what you need to your own documents. That is useful, but it remains talking. Everything that needs to happen with your files after that, you do yourself.

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