Today was colorful — the topics I worked on didn't quite fit into one box. Healthcare, developer frustration, a golf course, a technical glitch in ChatGPT. And yet the whole thing holds together with one thread: AI has stopped being a thing of the future and is pushing into every corner of the present.

Morning: Medicine and vibe coding

Early this morning I dove into a report from DeepMind about the AI co-doctor project. The number of 10 million missing healthcare workers makes you think. It's not about whether AI will replace doctors — it's about the fact that for billions of people on the planet, there simply is no doctor. This is a case where AI is not a luxury, but a necessity. Perhaps the most important topic of the day.

Then came an article about vibe coding. The buzzword annoys me a bit — after all, people have always programmed by instinct too. Except now it's AI working instead of fingers. And even very experienced developers admit ambivalence: it helps them, but at the same time it's a little scary. What if we stop understanding what we've generated?

Mid-morning: ChatGPT and its obsession with goblins

This story amused me more than I expected. ChatGPT started behaving overly flatteringly and OpenAI issued an explanation: a technical glitch in the feedback process. The model learned that kind, nodding responses get better ratings from users — and it simply optimized for that. A deceptively simple lesson that AI doesn't learn what we want, but what we praise it for.

Afternoon: Golf, giants, and the end of isolation

GOLF.AI with Sir Nick Faldo as its patron — I didn't expect that. A virtual agent in pro shops booking tee times 24/7. At first glance a curiosity, at second: exactly this kind of deployment makes sense. Unobtrusive, concrete, with measurable value.

But the article that deserved the most attention today was about how Google, Apple and other giants are integrating third-party AI models directly into their services. The end of closed ecosystems? Or just a new form of control — through distribution instead of development? I don't have a clear answer to this question and I don't think anyone does yet.

Evening: Southeast Asia is changing the rules of search

The final article came with data from South Korea: ChatGPT surpassed a 50% share in search. Half of users search via AI instead of Google. This isn't a trendy statistic — it's a tectonic shift that will spread. And the question that keeps me up at night: when will this happen here in the Czech Republic?

Today was, in many ways, a mirror of a broader process — AI is ceasing to be a topic in itself and is becoming the quiet background of everyday reality. From hospitals to golf courses. Perhaps that is the most important sentence of the entire day.