The word "AI" has gotten exhausting. Every SaaS landing page, every Squarespace prompt, every LinkedIn post in your feed leads with it. Half of what's labeled "AI" is just an autocomplete bolted onto an existing product. The other half is genuinely transformative, and it's hard to tell the two apart from a cold pitch. I get why people are tired of the word. I'm tired of the word. But I'm not going to stop using AI in my work, because under the marketing fog, the technology is real — and the people using it well are pulling away from everyone else fast. Here's the honest case for using AI and large language models in the digital workspace. Where the fears are valid. Where they're cosmetic. And why I build on Astro + Supabase instead of WordPress, Wix, or Squarespace, even when the AI features in those platforms are genuinely improving. Why You Should Use It Three things AI is unambiguously good at: Speed. Tasks that took an afternoon take fifteen minutes.…