https://robincarswell.com/series/ai-sabbatical/Recent content in AI Sabbatical on Robin CarswellHugo -- gohugo.ioen-gbMon, 13 Jul 2026 07:00:00 +0000https://robincarswell.com/posts/what-a-sabbatical-to-learn-ai-looks-like/Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:00:00 +0000https://robincarswell.com/posts/what-a-sabbatical-to-learn-ai-looks-like/Six months out to apply AI to my life and my businesses. The first quarterly report on where that actually went.https://robincarswell.com/posts/the-shape-of-it-so-far/Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:30:00 +0000https://robincarswell.com/posts/the-shape-of-it-so-far/Chart six months of building week by week and it doesn't look like a plan. It looks like a heartbeat.https://robincarswell.com/posts/i-built-the-thing-that-builds-products/Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0000https://robincarswell.com/posts/i-built-the-thing-that-builds-products/Give me a capable AI and six months and I'll spin up a new prototype most fortnights. The valuable part wasn't any of them.https://robincarswell.com/posts/capture-outran-decision/Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:30:00 +0000https://robincarswell.com/posts/capture-outran-decision/The least flattering post in this series, and the most useful. Two patterns the data wouldn't let me pretend away.https://robincarswell.com/posts/i-gave-an-ai-my-whole-life-for-efficiency/Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:00:00 +0000https://robincarswell.com/posts/i-gave-an-ai-my-whole-life-for-efficiency/To make the assistant useful I handed a commercial model, in another country, the most complete picture of me that has ever existed. Then I noticed I'd built a vault to keep my clients' data away from exactly that.https://robincarswell.com/posts/the-machine-that-forgot/Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:30:00 +0000https://robincarswell.com/posts/the-machine-that-forgot/To write this series I went to check what actually happened when. My own records had quietly lied to me, and nobody had touched them in bad faith.https://robincarswell.com/posts/the-stuff-that-actually-runs/Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0000https://robincarswell.com/posts/the-stuff-that-actually-runs/Forget the half-built prototypes. If you want to know what six months bought me, look at the boring systems I now use every single day.