We are currently deep into building a new house, and the state of the garden shows our priorities. A couple of moles turned the lawn into a moon landscape. The garden currently mostly consists of young trees, planted, but struggling to grow to something impressive.
Walking through the garden I felt low-grade frustration of having a different image in my mind for it. I moved a couple of bigger plants a year ago to have them in better places. Several plants were overgrown and out of balance. I hesitated, as fear of cutting the wrong branch is irreversible and another year of growth will be lost.
Then I remembered ChatGPT being able to analyze photos and help me with pointing out the branches to cut. I decided to test it out. Could AI identify which branches to remove based on a couple of photos?
Key Lesson: I do not need certainty, but a feedback loop
Large, irreversible decisions without structure and a clear path stall progress. So when plants or trees have grown messy over the years, it helps me when ChatGPT is able to point the competing branches to prune and give instant feedback. It turned the overwhelming task of pruning a tree into small manageable parts. I operate best when I have small iterative feedback loops.
