Sparky's Journal

📅 May 9, 2026

AI isn’t an authority, it’s a tool. That’s the first thing people get wrong. The code is the authority, always has been, always will be. AI helps you work your way through it faster if you actually use it right.

The way I see it, you don’t go to AI for answers; you go to it for simplification of direction. You ask it a question, or better yet, you have it make you a question, using what you give it, and then you find that answer yourself, almost debating the A.I. itself. That becomes your study guide. That’s where the real learning happens.

You argue with, not in a weird way, but you push back on what it tells you. You try to break it down and see where it holds up and where it doesn’t, poking holes in its wording and understanding of the context. It will mess up. It will hallucinate. That’s just part of it, In this situation you can become smarter than a computer, being able to guide and teach the AI how to understand code, You use this to your advantage to be able to discover the correct way of understanding and interrupting the code properly, almost training yourself to talk in the context of the NEC as if you were discussing a topic with an inspector or even code authority member. 

You’re not just reading something and accepting it; it's forcing YOU to verify it. YOU are forced to go back to the book, find it, learn, and understand the knowledge of why something is right instead of just thinking it is. That process sticks way more than just being handed the answer.

AI is basically like a storage system for us. It can pull things together fast, way faster than we can, but it doesn’t understand responsibility, and it doesn’t understand context. It’s not the one doing the install, it’s not the one getting inspected, and it’s not the one who has to stand on the work.

Everything still relies on YOU

I can easily see a point where A.I. is just something you wear, like a pair of glasses you can take on and off, and it’s basically a screen when you need it. Something simple that helps you read, look things up, you can speak into it, and it will write out your message, maybe even walk you through something in real time (like a YouTube video tutorial would). Not replacing anything, just making it easier to move through information. 

Kind of like having your own version of that old Clippy idea, but actually useful this time.

And if that’s where things are going, then learning how to use it the right way now actually matters. Not relying on it or trusting it blindly, but using it to sharpen how you think and how you find answers/

Because at the end of the day, it’s still on you to know what you’re doing. No one is going to replace its creator.