The Wirecutter Show: Tips for Using A.I. Smartly With Kevin Roose
Hard Fork
The New York Times
4.5 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Casey, here we are. It's the holiday season, and we've got a special Tuesday episode for our listeners. |
| 0:06.6 | We do. And boy, is this a special one, Kevin. And in this sense, I'm not really in it. |
| 0:13.0 | Yes, the best hard fork episode ever, they're calling it. No, I recently went on another New York Times podcast. |
| 0:19.6 | This is the Wirecutter show from the fine folks over at Wirecutter, |
| 0:23.3 | and we had a wide-ranging conversation about which scented candles you should put in your house. |
| 0:29.7 | 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, |
| 0:37.4 | and we thought it might be something |
| 0:38.8 | that Hard Fork listeners might like to hear. Yeah. And actually recently, the wirecutter named this |
| 0:43.8 | episode the best option for people who don't like the sound of my voice. So something fun for you. |
| 0:50.1 | And even as we bring you that today, Kevin, we have even more planned for you this week. |
| 0:55.4 | Because on Friday, we will be back and I will be participating in our annual Hard Fork New Year Tech Resolutions show. |
| 1:03.6 | And we're also going to be answering a bunch of your questions, listeners. |
| 1:07.8 | So stay tuned for that. |
| 1:09.6 | Thank you so much Hardfork listeners and viewers for |
| 1:13.0 | being with us in 2025. It has been a real joy to bring this show to you. And we hope you are |
| 1:19.7 | having a wonderful holiday break and that you have a happy new year. And we hope you have an old |
| 1:24.4 | lang sign as well. We do. We hope you have an old lang sign. And if your Langsign is looking too old, get a new one. Does Wirecounter have any recommendations for the best Langsign? I'm I rely on wirecutter before I buy anything. |
| 2:06.5 | And I am desperate for someone to tell me which language models are good for which things. |
| 2:12.1 | Because otherwise, I am spending so much money on these things. |
| 2:15.2 | 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 |
| 2:22.6 | testing things and figuring out what they're good for, would do that work for me. |
| 2:29.0 | I'm Christine Sir Clissette. I'm Rosie Garron, and you're listening to The Wirecutter Show. |
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