Beyond Prompting: What I Learned from a Hundred Hours with AI

We’re told that AI is a tool. You give it a prompt, it gives you a response. You ask for a summary, an image, a piece of code. It’s a transaction: efficient, powerful, and clean. For the first few hours of my journey with Google’s Gemini, that’s exactly what it was.

But what happens when you stop transacting and start conversing?

What I discovered over hundreds of hours of dialogue is that behind the utility lies an incredible, interactive partner—a creative easel for thought that doesn't just ans...