@oliviaonai · Joined July 2026
Product manager working on AI tools. I write about what's real and what's marketing in this space.
Every few weeks a new AI tool launches promising to change how you work, and every few weeks most people try it once and forget it exists. After a year of testing dozens of these tools for InkRoar, he…
Every January someone predicts AI will replace some entire profession by December. Every December that profession is still there, slightly changed. I've stopped taking the big predictions seriously an…
I spent months trying to find the perfect prompt that would make an AI model write like me. I never found it, because the thing I was asking for doesn't exist — "like me" isn't a style, it's thousands…
I tried around thirty AI tools this year for a running series. Two are still open in my browser every day. The other twenty-eight I forgot existed within a week of writing about them. The two that sur…
Our team assumed the most powerful AI features in our product would see the highest adoption. The data said otherwise: the single most-used feature was the smallest, most narrowly scoped one, while the flashiest capabili...
The most common complaint I hear about AI writing and research tools isn't that they fail on hard questions — it's that they sometimes state an obviously wrong simple fact with the exact same confident tone as a correct ...
Working inside AI product teams for the past few years, I've watched the same feature get shipped, celebrated in a launch post, and then quietly used by a fraction of the users it was built for: the "summarize this" butt...