In the AI gold rush, I see two distinct categories of solutions: vitamins and painkillers. A vitamin is something that helps you write better copy or polish a slide deck, which only boosts your productivity so much. A painkiller, however, is a matter of systemic survival. It can help you fix an issue before it gets out of hand or deal with a global outage, like when one CrowdStrike change crashed roughly 8.5 million Windows PCs in July 2024. When embracing AI, it’s better to go after the…