Wanted: the wisdom of our elders

We need more Grandpas.

You've spent a lifetime learning how things actually get done. You can spot a bodge from across the room. You have no desire whatsoever to learn another app. Good news: you don't have to.

AI finally grew up. You don't need to be "techy".

For years, computers made you learn their language. Not any more. Today you just talk: on the phone, over a message, across a cup of tea. It listens, it does the work, it shows you the result.

Which means the most valuable person in the room is no longer the one who understands the machine. It's the one who understands the job.

Let's call it what it is.

The AI industry has a lovely vocabulary for things that don't work:

"Amnesia" It forgot what you told it.

"Drift" It wandered off the job.

"Hallucination" It made it up.

In any workshop you've ever run, that has a shorter name: it's rubbish, and you'd send it back. That instinct is exactly what we're missing.

What a Grandpa does here

Teach the herd

Tell our agents how the job is really done: the shortcuts, the traps, the things nobody writes down.

Give it the sniff test

Look at what the agents produce and say "that'll do" or "absolutely not". Your no is worth more than a thousand benchmarks.

Shape what comes next

Join a small community that decides what this thing should and shouldn't do. A new lease of life, with no screens to learn.

About the name

Yes, grandmas are very welcome. No, we're not changing it. Our grandpas, and plenty of others besides, helped get this thing off the ground, and we love them for it. So "Grandpas" it is, in celebration of our elders. Deal with it.

Put your name down.

Four questions. If a grandchild is filling this in for you, that's fine too. We'll ring or write, whichever you prefer.