The Wirecutter Show: Tips for Using A.I. Smartly With Kevin Roose

Well, Casey, here we are. It's the holiday season, and we've got a special Tuesday episode for our listeners. We do. And boy, is this a special one, Kevin. And in this sense, I'm not really in it. Yes. The best hard fork episode ever, they're calling it. No. I recently went on another New York Times podcast. This is the Wirecutter show for the fine folks over at Wirecutter, and we had a wide ranging conversation about which scented candles you should put in your house. No. It was about AI, obviously. They asked me to come on to talk about how to make AI tools work for me and for others, and we thought it might be something that hard fork listeners might like to hear. Yeah. And, actually, recently, the Wirecutter named this episode the best option for people who don't like the sound of my voice. So something fun for you. And even as we bring you that today, Kevin, we have even more planned for you this week because on Friday, we will be back, and I will be participating in our annual hard fork new year tech resolution show. And we're also gonna be answering a bunch of your questions, listeners, so stay tuned for that. Thank you so much, Hardfork listeners and viewers, for being with us in 2025. It has been a real joy to bring this show to you, and we hope you are having a wonderful holiday break and that you have a happy New Year. And we hope you have an old Lang sign as well. We do. We hope you have an old Lang sign. And then if your Lang sign is looking too old, get a new one. Yes. Does Wirecutter have any recommendations for the best Lang sign? I rely on Wirecutter before I buy anything, and I am desperate for someone to tell me which language models are good for which things. Because, otherwise, I am spending so much money on these things, and I'm spending all this time trying to figure out what is good for what. And I would just love it if you all, who are the experts in the world at testing things and figuring out what they're good for, would do that work for me. I'm Christine Siehr Clissett. I'm Rosie Gerron, and you're listening to The Wirecutter Show. Rosie. Hi. Hello. Hello. I'm excited about our episode today. I am gonna be chatting with Kevin Roose, New York Times tech columnist. He writes about many facets of tech and talks a lot about AI, both in the newspaper and on his New York Times podcast, Hard Fork, which he cohosts with platformer's Casey Newton. Kevin is so great. The podcast is so great. I'm really, really excited you're doing this. I am too. So Kevin and I are gonna talk today about something that we haven't covered on this show before, AI, which, of course, everyone is talking about …