Three Years Trying to Make AI Useful for my Actual Job, I Was Solving the Wrong Problem.

Everyone's focused on which AI model to use. The real leverage is what you feed it. I built a structured knowledge base in Obsidian, wired an agent layer into it, and then built an open source transcription app to capture the conversations that feed the whole system. The knowledge layer is the product. The AI just got useful once it had something worth reading.