From Simple Curiosity to Daily Essential: My experience with AI Tools

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2025

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My journey with AI started with simple curiosity then it ended up being much more useful in my daily life than I thought it would be.

At the beginning, I just wanted to see if AI tools were useful beyond the hype. What began as a simple test quickly became something that I use on a daily basis. I began with simple tasks like asking AI to tidy up my grammar or summarize an article. Day by day I started realizing how capable this thing is. It encouraged me to learn and try new things more confidently that seemed very tough and vague at the beginning. I started asking for assistance with Python and coding errors, and it often provided working solutions and even simpler code chunks that do the same purpose. I used it also to learn how to make professional websites with seamless animations and UI elements. This extended to tiny things in my daily life like making my daily to-do list, making workouts and meal plans based on my schedule and what is in my fridge. On top of this, you can throw a prompt full of mistakes and inaccuracies and tada 🪄, it understands you, especially if you use it more often and it builds a memory about your usage.

A trend that is funny and magical at the same time not too long ago, is image generators. Typing something like “a chicken wearing a suit and driving a car” and seeing it appear seconds later felt like pure magic. While it is often just for the joy of creation, turning creativity into a game, I also used it for study to generate mind maps.

So in a nutshell, AI tools have incredibly boosted my productivity and creativity in many areas. There is still a huge room for improvement for AI tools, as the outputs can often feel generic or even miss the point completely. Data privacy is a major concern as well. It’s easy for most people to forget that they are sharing data with these tools, therefore we should all be more mindful of what we input. They are like co-pilots but you should always be the one holding the wheel.

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The Real Cost of Convenience: Are We Trading Ownership for Access?

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Digital disruption is often illustrated to us through the dramatic stories of startups taking on the giants. But a quieter but more profound change is happening: the shift from owning products to subscribing to services. This change, driven by digital platforms, is redefining business models by applying the economics of digital goods to physical products.

Platforms are driving this change by exploiting the characteristics of information goods which have high upfront costs but low reproduction costs. As researchers highlight, digitalization allows manufacturers to switch from selling products to offer data-driven services (Kowalkowski et al., 2022). We can see this in the automotive industry where companies such as BMW are now offering monthly subscriptions to unlock features like heated seats and automatic high-beam headlights (Levin, 2023). In doing so, the car becomes a platform that generates revenue beyond the initial sale and not just a product.

This shows a powerful form of digital disruption that changes how value is created and delivered. The move to service-based models allows companies to build continuous relationships with their customers, creating stable revenue streams through what is essentially a rental economy (Kindström & Kowalkowski, 2015). This goes beyond cars to everyday items. For example, Signify (formerly Philips Lighting) offers a Light-as-a-Service (LaaS) model where businesses pay for high-quality illumination and lighting services rather than the products themselves.  This service includes design, installation, maintenance, upgrades and even replacement of lighting systems, with Signify owning and responsible for the equipment’s lifecycle (Signify, n.d.).

In my opinion, this subscription model has both advantages and drawbacks. While it offers lower upfront costs and continuous updates for consumers, it raises important questions about long-term expenses, repair rights, and consumer autonomy. Are we creating a future where we truly own nothing? The sustainability of this model will depend on whether companies prioritize transparent pricing and fair consumer practices over locking users into perpetual payments.

What has been your experience with subscription services for physical products? Have you found the convenience worth the potential trade-offs?


References:

Kindström, D., & Kowalkowski, C. (2015). Service-driven business model innovation: Organizing the shift from a product-based to a service-centric business model. In N. Foss & T. Saebi (Eds.), Business model innovation: The organizational dimension. Oxford University Press.

Kowalkowski, C., Tronvoll, B., Sörhammar, D., & Sklyar, A. (2022). Digital servitization: How data-driven services drive transformation.

Levin, T. (2023, October 20). Car companies want to make billions by charging monthly fees for features like heated seats, but buyers won’t pay up. Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/car-feature-subscriptions-add-ons-bmw-ford-toyota-gm-2022-2

Signify. (n.d.). Light as a service. Signify. https://www.signify.com/global/signify-services/managed-services/light-as-a-service

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