AI might save my life and has let me do 8 things I would not have done otherwise

Reddit r/artificial / 4/24/2026

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Key Points

  • The author describes using AI to accelerate and improve personal healthcare-related analysis, including examining 20 years of blood test results and preparing materials for a doctor review.
  • AI helped turn health data into clear charts that reveal trends and information that would otherwise be hidden.
  • In about five hours, the author also used AI to produce multiple non-health deliverables, such as an AI art mini screen saver, a full marketing program, a supporting webpage, and a press release for a book launch.
  • The author emphasizes that while the tasks could be done manually, AI made them feasible and prevented them from being abandoned due to low perceived effort.
  • Overall, the piece argues that AI can boost productivity and enable one-off or time-consuming projects that a person would not otherwise do.

Today I have done all these in about 5 hours

  1. analysed my blood test results for the last 20 years
  2. reviewed whole health action plan for review with doctor
  3. produced charts from that data which clearly shows direction of travel and reveals information hidden in the data
  4. wrote a mini screen saver thing which shows me the top AI art on Reddit
  5. built an entire marketing program for a book I am launching
  6. built a web page to support the program
  7. built a press release for the book
  8. got a list of all key contacts in local media and bookshops - with email addresses and frequently actual names.
  9. [EDIT, forgot this one] Made a Star Trek LCARS home page for the 50 odd regular links I use and hooked it into the database where I keep the list.

Now, I could have done all that myself, but it would have taken a week. Crucially I *would not have bothered *

I would not have seen the results as worth the effort.

So, (a) I have been more productive (b) I have done stuff I never would have done without AI

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