Smart tools ,dumb days

About this episode

The episode features a candid discussion about the frustrations of modern software and the mixed experiences with AI tools like ChatGPT.

Episode 10 🔥 Fire & Steel Podcast — This Week’s Episode This week on the Fire& Steel Podcast , it’s a loose, honest, very real catch-up episode — thekind that happens when makers sit down, hit record, and let the conversation gowhere it wants. We start by ventingabout modern software that’s powerful on paper but maddening in practice.LightBurn, Photoshop, Premiere Pro — all incredible tools, all capable ofcompletely derailing your day when they decide not to behave. If you’ve everfelt like software is actively gaslighting you, you’ll feel seen. Chris talks throughordering parts for his various project vehicles, including using ChatGPT towork out gearing ratios — one of those moments where AI can genuinely beincredibly helpful, saving time and brainpower when the maths gets a bit heavy. That naturally leadsinto a wider conversation about AI and ChatGPT more generally: when it’sgenuinely brilliant at problem-solving, and when it’s very confidently wrong .Toby shares a recent experience where ChatGPT absolutely stitched him up whiletrying to solve a Premiere Pro issue, confidently making things up and turninga simple problem into a deeply frustrating one — and why blind…

People in this episode

Host: Chris

Topics covered

• software
• AI
• problem-solving
• modern tools
• project vehicles

Keywords

• LightBurn
• Photoshop
• Premiere Pro
• ChatGPT
• UPS

Mentioned in this episode

Products: LightBurn, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, ChatGPT, AItools

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