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Productive AI procrastination is still productive

Three years of watching AI content, and I genuinely could not tell you what I had to show for it.

I played with platforms. My feed was full of people calling themselves experts. A lot of noise, not much payoff. Then the CustomGPT suite I built changed that a little. Sales came in. Okay, maybe not a total waste.

Then came the website move.

I had 101 blog posts on a platform with no export button. It was not going to make leaving easy. I did not know how to get them out other than manual copy-and-paste, so I just asked. That is when one of the tools suggested a Python script that could automatically pull everything and drop it into a CSV file I could import directly into WordPress. I did not write it. I described the problem, it built the solution, and it worked.

Feature images were next. Every single one needed to come with the blogs. Another ask, another script. It went to each post and basically right-clicked and saved every image. Minutes later, I had a zip file sitting on my desktop with all 101 of them.

The emails were a different kind of problem. I had been wondering for a while how to create some kind of archive. Years of newsletters and no real place for them to live once they were sent. I went back into Kajabi, picked the ones I wanted to save, and resent them to myself. Sixty emails, about a year’s worth. Once I gave AI access to that inbox, it went in, pulled the subject lines and the content, and copied everything I needed.

Not a perfect system. But I did not lose a year of work either.

Then the 301 redirects. That is just a way of telling Google where your old pages went, so your traffic does not disappear in the move. Every one of those 101 blogs had its own URL on Kajabi and a different one on WordPress. I gave AI both sitemaps, it compared them, built out the full redirect list, and dropped it into a spreadsheet I could upload directly. The whole thing took less than three minutes. Doing that by hand would have meant cross-referencing hundreds of links one by one.

Every time I hit a wall, I asked. Every time, it found a way through.

Here is the thing most people miss. AI is not a search engine. You are not typing keywords and hoping for a match. You are having an actual conversation. You can say, “I do not know how to do this, help me figure it out?” and it will work with you until it does. That is a different tool than most people are treating it as.

Things that would have taken me days took minutes. And it only worked because three years of playing around had given me enough familiarity to know I could just ask.

What AI still can’t do on its own.

Give AI a topic it finds interesting, and it will run straight off the edge of your brand into something that sounds polished and says nothing specific about your business. Every piece of content it helped me write had guardrails. Brand voice documentation. Skills built specifically for how Post Road Marketing sounds. Knowing when to pull it back was part of the work the whole time.

AI kept me moving forward when I would have otherwise stopped. Because what was going to be a content migration turned into a complete website rebuild.

The site is live. There are still things to tidy. That is fine.

I know there is a real mix out there right now. A lot of you are using it every day and finding it genuinely changes what you can get done. Others are not seeing much difference yet, or are still in the dabbling stage and not sure where to even hand things off.

I want to know where you fall on the scale. What are you actually giving it right now, and what do you wish you were handing off? Or are you still figuring out whether it is worth your time at all?

Hit reply. I am genuinely curious.

Buckle up. This ride is just getting started.