About
My name is Kimberly Bella. I write Plain Inference, where I test new technology on real tasks and follow what it means for the people it touches.
This started as Daily(Ish) GenAI Experiments, built on a simple bet: that watching someone fumble through a tool in public is more persuasive than being told the tool matters. So I tried things in the open—the genuinely useful and the faintly embarrassing alike—mostly to give the smart people in my life a reason to stop watching from a distance and actually put their hands on something. It worked. The people who were hanging back a year ago are using these tools daily now.
So the question has changed, and Plain Inference follows it. Once everyone is already in the water, what matters is no longer whether a tool is worth trying. It’s what that tool quietly changes for the person using it—the difference between asking a tool a question and handing it a task to carry out on your behalf, and the things we agree to without quite registering that we’ve agreed to anything.
My approach hasn’t changed: test everything, document honestly, correct mistakes immediately. I still don’t trust a claim about a tool I haven’t run myself. What changes is where each piece lands—instead of stopping at what worked and what didn’t, I pull the lens up to what it means, for the person using the tool and for anyone paying attention to where the openings are.
Why this matters
Every one of these shifts creates a need that didn’t exist a year ago, and many of them are still going unmet—moments where a tool leaves an ordinary person exposed in a way they can’t easily see, and no one has yet built the thing that would close the gap. That intersection of new risk and unbuilt solution is where I want to spend my attention: less on what a tool can do for us, more on what it does to us, and on the room that leaves for anyone willing to build for these new needs.
No technical expertise required. No judgment if you’re new to any of this. Just clear documentation of what these tools really mean for the people they touch, and where that leaves room to build.