--- title: "Insights: AI | Common Sense Systems" url: https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/ description: "Articles by John Sambrook tagged AI, newest first." --- [Insights](https://common-sense.com/insights/) # AI 33 articles, newest first. [All](https://common-sense.com/insights/) [AI 33](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/)[Theory of Constraints 30](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/theory-of-constraints/)[Strategy 28](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/strategy/)[Small Business 26](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/small-business/)[Healthcare 20](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/healthcare/)[Operations 18](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/operations/)[Practical Tips 16](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/practical-tips/)[Medical Devices 9](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/medical-devices/)[Leadership 8](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/leadership/)[Case Studies 4](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/case-studies/)[Government 3](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/government/)[Workforce 3](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/workforce/) - [My Grok Bot Knows What Is in Every Tote](https://common-sense.com/insights/my-grok-bot-knows-whats-in-every-tote/) October 25, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Practical Tips](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/practical-tips/) I am moving out of a paid storage unit, and a Grok Bot named Totes is keeping the inventory. I snap a photo on my phone, add a few words, and the record updates. - [People Are Discovering Grok Bot. Here Is What They Are Finding.](https://common-sense.com/insights/people-are-discovering-grok-bot/) October 24, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Small Business](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/small-business/), [Practical Tips](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/practical-tips/) Owners, writers, and engineers are putting Grok Bot to work. A look at what they build, what they praise, what frustrates them, and what it means for a small business. - [I Manage a Fleet of Grok Bots Every Day Without Losing Work](https://common-sense.com/insights/running-grok-bots-without-losing-work/) October 17, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Small Business](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/small-business/), [Practical Tips](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/practical-tips/) My Grok Bots do real work for my business every day. These are the habits I use to look after a very capable tool and keep my work safe. - [Check the Document Before the Error Travels](https://common-sense.com/insights/check-the-document-before-the-error-travels/) October 5, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Theory of Constraints](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/theory-of-constraints/), [Healthcare](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/healthcare/), [Government](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/government/) Public institutions should verify consequential documents before circulation, using evidence-backed adversarial AI review and accountable human approval. - [The HR Screen Is the Wrong Market for an Older Engineer](https://common-sense.com/insights/the-hr-screen-is-the-wrong-market/) August 31, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Small Business](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/small-business/), [Workforce](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/workforce/), [Strategy](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/strategy/) After 18 months without a full-time gig, I stopped treating the standard HR application as my main route to work and started contacting decision makers directly. - [AI Was Supposed to Obsolete Me. It Multiplied My Opportunities.](https://common-sense.com/insights/the-hiring-door-closed-at-66-it-was-the-wrong-door/) August 26, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Small Business](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/small-business/), [Workforce](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/workforce/) At 66, hiring filters rejected me in hours and never saw a person. I am not bitter about it. The same tools that score us out multiplied the range of problems I can solve, and that is worth more than any job I applied for. - [Gemini Called My Website a Textbook Example. Here Is What It Took.](https://common-sense.com/insights/gemini-called-my-website-a-textbook-example/) August 23, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Small Business](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/small-business/), [Practical Tips](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/practical-tips/) I asked Google Gemini whether my small-business website was ready for AI agents. It said textbook example. That verdict took months of invisible work, and you can run the same test tonight. - [Your UX Spend Is Wasted on Me](https://common-sense.com/insights/your-ux-spend-is-wasted-on-me/) August 23, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Small Business](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/small-business/), [Strategy](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/strategy/) My agent is my user interface. If your product wants my business, give my agent an API it can read and use in the next five minutes. Keep the screens. - [Why AI Improves Everything Except Your P&L](https://common-sense.com/insights/why-ai-improves-everything-except-your-p-and-l/) August 20, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Small Business](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/small-business/), [Theory of Constraints](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/theory-of-constraints/), [Strategy](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/strategy/) Apply AI to a part of your business that was never limiting results and that part really does improve. Your costs go up, your sales do not. Here is what a constraint is, why almost no AI investment is aimed at one, and how to tell whether yours is. - [I Fired Anthropic From My Daily Brief](https://common-sense.com/insights/fired-anthropic-daily-brief/) August 19, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Small Business](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/small-business/), [Practical Tips](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/practical-tips/) I moved the judgment and writing work in my daily report from cloud models to a local Qwen model. It costs less and keeps more of my data at home. - [The No-Losers Guide: A Practical Method for Resolving Organizational Conflict](https://common-sense.com/insights/nolosers-guide/) July 21, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Theory of Constraints](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/theory-of-constraints/), [Leadership](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/leadership/) Goldratt's Evaporating Cloud method, scaled with AI assistance. - [AI Assistants Fetched One of Our Posts 990 Times. It Had No Door.](https://common-sense.com/insights/ai-assistants-fetched-one-post-990-times-it-had-no-door/) July 12, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Small Business](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/small-business/), [Strategy](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/strategy/) We sell an audit that tells businesses what machines can read on their site. Then I looked at our own server logs and found the machines had been talking to us for months, and we had never once answered. - [Getting Started with Local AI: A Coding Stack That Runs on Your Own Hardware](https://common-sense.com/insights/getting-started-with-local-ai/) May 27, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Small Business](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/small-business/), [Practical Tips](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/practical-tips/) For the past couple of weeks I have done real coding on a model running entirely on my own GPUs. Here is the hardware, the model, and what every parameter actually does. - [The Device CLI Was an Organizing Surface, Not Just a Tool](https://common-sense.com/insights/device-cli-organizing-surface/) May 13, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Medical Devices](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/medical-devices/) the most important part of the the client work was the protocol boundary. The host CLI, the firmware, the cellphone UI, and the product itself were organized around it. - [The Room Where It Happens (Differently)](https://common-sense.com/insights/the-room-where-it-happens-differently/) March 26, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Theory of Constraints](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/theory-of-constraints/), [Strategy](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/strategy/), [Leadership](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/leadership/) When an AI participates in a problem-solving conversation, people drop defenses they have carried for decades. This is not about a better search engine. It is about changing the dynamics of the room. - [My Registered Agent Charged $400 to File a $70 Form. I Fired Them This Morning.](https://common-sense.com/insights/fired-registered-agent-claude-code/) March 25, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Small Business](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/small-business/), [Practical Tips](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/practical-tips/) Becoming my own registered agent and using Claude Code to manage the paperwork saved money, but the real win is owning my business records in a system I control and can search. - [What Happens When an AI Agent Uses Evaporating Clouds?](https://common-sense.com/insights/what-happens-when-ai-uses-evaporating-clouds/) March 19, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Theory of Constraints](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/theory-of-constraints/), [Strategy](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/strategy/) I built an AI agent that applies TOC Thinking Processes autonomously to improve business ideas. When I pointed it at itself, it resolved two real tensions via Evaporating Cloud across 10 iterations. - [After the First Session](https://common-sense.com/insights/after-the-first-session/) March 18, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Theory of Constraints](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/theory-of-constraints/), [Healthcare](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/healthcare/), [Strategy](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/strategy/) A board commissioner and an AI sit alone in an empty conference room and talk honestly about what just happened and why. Episode 06 of the Cascade Valley audio drama series. - [The First Session](https://common-sense.com/insights/the-first-session/) March 18, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Theory of Constraints](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/theory-of-constraints/), [Healthcare](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/healthcare/), [Operations](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/operations/) Twelve people walk into a working group carrying separate problems and walk out carrying a shared one. Episode 05 of the Cascade Valley audio drama series. - [I Woke Up Worried About a Denied Insurance Claim. Fifteen Minutes Later, I Wasn't.](https://common-sense.com/insights/insurance-denial-resolved-before-coffee/) March 17, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Small Business](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/small-business/), [Practical Tips](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/practical-tips/) How I used Claude Code to turn a confusing insurance denial into a clear, organized answer -- and why I'm building an AI-managed insurance filing system for everything. - [I Fired QuickBooks. Then I Built Something Better in Twenty Minutes.](https://common-sense.com/insights/fired-quickbooks-built-something-better/) March 16, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Small Business](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/small-business/), [Practical Tips](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/practical-tips/), [Strategy](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/strategy/) Replacing a $150/month accounting platform with open-source tools and AI revealed something bigger: the build-vs-buy calculus has shifted, and most of us have not caught up. - [After the Meeting](https://common-sense.com/insights/after-the-meeting/) March 7, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Theory of Constraints](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/theory-of-constraints/), [Healthcare](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/healthcare/), [Workforce](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/workforce/) A Chief Nursing Officer processes what happened at the board meeting -- and discovers that the structural conflicts she has been managing for years have a name. Episode 02 of the Cascade Valley audio drama series. - [The Other Calculation](https://common-sense.com/insights/the-other-calculation/) March 7, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Theory of Constraints](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/theory-of-constraints/), [Healthcare](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/healthcare/), [Operations](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/operations/) A hospital CFO runs the same numbers two ways and gets answers that disagree by a factor of five. Episode 04 of the Cascade Valley audio drama series. - [The Meeting That Went Differently](https://common-sense.com/insights/the-meeting-that-went-differently/) March 2, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Theory of Constraints](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/theory-of-constraints/), [Healthcare](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/healthcare/), [Strategy](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/strategy/) A dramatized community hospital board meeting — fictional health system, real governance dynamics — showing what changes when an AI has a seat at the table. - [I Published a Blog Post and Shared It on Social Media Without Opening a Browser](https://common-sense.com/insights/ai-social-media-workflow/) February 27, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Small Business](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/small-business/), [Practical Tips](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/practical-tips/) A working workflow for small business owners who know they should be posting online but never get around to it. - [The Meeting That Could Not Have Gone Differently](https://common-sense.com/insights/the-meeting-that-could-not-have-gone-differently/) February 26, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Healthcare](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/healthcare/), [Strategy](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/strategy/), [Leadership](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/leadership/) Why good people in well-run hospitals still end up in the wrong conversation, and what a structural fix might look like. - [Your Google Business Profile Is Floating in Space](https://common-sense.com/insights/connecting-google-business-profile-to-your-structured-data/) February 25, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Small Business](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/small-business/), [Practical Tips](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/practical-tips/) How connecting your Google Business Profile to your website structured data helps both AI search engines and traditional search understand who you actually are. - [I Fired My SEO Expert (And Hired Claude Code Instead)](https://common-sense.com/insights/ai-seo-audit/) February 21, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Small Business](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/small-business/), [Practical Tips](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/practical-tips/) A small business owner's account of running a complete SEO audit with an AI coding agent in one session, fixing every issue the same afternoon, and what it means for the $80 billion SEO industry. - [Doing My Taxes with Claude Code and Codex](https://common-sense.com/insights/doing-taxes-with-ai-coding-agents/) February 15, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Small Business](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/small-business/), [Practical Tips](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/practical-tips/) A small business owner's account of automating tax preparation with AI coding agents, and what it suggests about the near future of knowledge work. - [The Biggest Satisficing Trap AI Breaks Isn't What You Think](https://common-sense.com/insights/ai-self-limiting-assumptions/) February 12, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Strategy](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/strategy/) Matt Shumer is right that AI is about to change everything. But the real transformation isn't about job loss -- it's about discovering that most of the limits you've been working within were never real. - [Cancel Your SaaS, Keep Your Data: How AI Coding Agents Change the Economics](https://common-sense.com/insights/saas-subscriptions-ai-coding-agents/) February 12, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Practical Tips](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/practical-tips/) When you can build a custom import tool in fifteen minutes, the calculus on which subscriptions to keep changes dramatically. - [AI-Facilitated Constraint Resolution for Healthcare Systems](https://common-sense.com/insights/ai-facilitated-constraint-resolution/) February 9, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Theory of Constraints](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/theory-of-constraints/), [Healthcare](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/healthcare/), [Strategy](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/strategy/) How AI can dissolve complex multi-stakeholder conflicts by surfacing hidden assumptions, not by replacing human judgment. - [The Burnout Antidote: Voice Agents Transform Healthcare's Most Painful Conversations](https://common-sense.com/insights/burnout-antidote-voice-agents/) August 17, 2025 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Healthcare](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/healthcare/) Discover how voice agents transform healthcare's most painful conversations by removing emotional friction from insurance claims, patient billing, and administrative battles that burn out staff and traumatize patients.