Documenting what happens when regular people bring data to fights designed to exhaust them.
The equation changed.
Your landlord has a legal team. Your insurance company has an algorithm. Your ISP has a call center designed to outlast your frustration.
Money has been used as a tool to keep people in line. Can't afford a lawyer. Can't afford a consultant. Can't afford to fight.
AI breaks that equation. The cost of understanding your own situation just dropped to zero.
This is not about AI replacing people. It's about AI returning power to people who never had it.
Real stories. Real data. Real outcomes.
The Tech Who Thought It Was Magic
My ISP sent a technician for the sixth time. He looked at my screen and saw real-time dashboards tracking packet loss, jitter, bufferbloat — tools that dig deep into traffic stability and show exactly whether I'm getting what I pay for. He thought it was some kind of professional setup. It wasn't. It was me and Claude, building programs the way a developer would — except I'm not a developer. The dashboard took 5 minutes to build. AI didn't just give me answers. It gave me tools.
The ISP That Bet I'd Give Up
259 speed tests. 34.7% packet loss. 2 years of broken service. 5 tech visits that fixed nothing. Then AI turned frustration into an FCC complaint with data they couldn't ignore.
Not "10 prompts to boost productivity." Not hype.
Just a regular person using AI to stop getting pushed around.
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