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AI (Artificial Intelligence) - Anyone Benefitting from it?

My gurus are telling me the next release wants simpler prompts with goals and guardrails and to give the LLM freedom to guide itself to the goal you stated.

That intel is gold and makes tons of sense! Sounds like the natural evolution of AI.

I look forward to a vocal shift in the flow. If you use Claude Code today, you should be familiar with the Plan to Code flow. What would be super useful for people like you and me, Joe, would be to ideate via voice with an AI. Just talk to it. That would be the "plan" phase. Then a design phase where it outputs something like a mock or storyboard to approve. And finally, a build phase where it does the actual work.

With a flow like that, I can see multiple concurrent projects happening. Way beyond what some of us are doing today.

"Yesterday, AI made me efficient. Today, I'm busier than ever."
 
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# Summary Automotive professionals debate the practical value of AI in dealerships amid heavy marketing hype, with contributors sharing skepticism about vendors simply slapping "AI" onto their branding while others report genuine success using AI for specific applications like phone agents, BDC automation, and content generation. A useful "BS detector" framework emerges for evaluating suspicious AI vendors (companies with "AI" in their name, .ai/.io domains, or heavy sales teams), while real-world implementers demonstrate measurable productivity gains in lead handling and customer service when AI is deployed thoughtfully. The consensus suggests AI's value lies not in trendy chatbots but in automating specific, well-defined business processes like appointment booking and initial customer contact management.

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