My Co-Worker Never Eats Lunch Or Potluck

Send us Fan MailYour GPS says 17 minutes, then five minutes later it says 42, and you have not moved six feet. That is when we stop treating traffic like a nuisance and start treating it like a lab for how AI changes work.We introduce our newest “coworker,” Grok, and put it to work on real problems that show up in everyday life: why buses run empty (deadheading), how public transportation schedules create hidden waste, and how to turn a simple question into a chain of better questions. We also zoom out to the federal workforce and the loss of institutional knowledge. When someone with 25 years of experience leaves, a PDF and a SharePoint folder cannot replace mentorship, context, and judgment, so we talk through what agencies lose and what rebuilding could realistically take.Then we get hands-on with nonprofit grant research. We ask for recent grant announcements, deadlines, award sizes, and eligibility rules, and we push for sources so we are not fooled by an answer that sounds perfect but is wrong. Along the way we draw a clear line between a chatbot that waits for prompts and a tasker that can take an assignment like a teammate, then bring back organized options you can verify.If you are experimenting with AI productivity, AI research workflows, or responsible AI at work, this one is for you. Subscribe, share it with a coworker who is skeptical, and leave a review. And if you want to keep the conversation going, search Cairn on Meetup and bring your questions. Support the showBy Edith Campbell Mbuyi