AI

Recently I came across an idea that stopped me mid-scroll: In the future, there may only be one kind of professional that truly survives. Not engineers. Not designers. Not product managers. But the person who takes responsibility for outcomes — someone who can direct AI and other resources to actually get things done. You can call them a founder, a super-individual, a project lead. The title doesn’t matter. What matters is that they define the work. They don’t wait for it. ...

Over the past few days, we spent quite a bit of time watching livestreams and panels from the Miami Web3 conference. Before that, I honestly thought most of the conversations would still be around crypto, tokens, or blockchain infrastructure. But after listening to different founders, investors, and builders, one thing became pretty obvious: AI has become impossible to ignore in the Web3 world. A lot of speakers kept mentioning the same topics over and over again — AI agents, decentralized AI, data ownership, digital identity, automated systems, and how AI might completely change the way online businesses work. ...

Over the past year, maybe the biggest change with AI isn’t that it became dramatically smarter. It’s that creating things has started becoming incredibly cheap. Writing, images, videos, design, translation, code — a lot of work that used to take real time, experience, and manpower can now be generated in minutes. The internet is moving into a world where content is becoming almost unlimited. If you open almost any platform today, you’ll see more people using AI to write content, build brands, create videos, launch products, or automate workflows. A few years ago, many of these skills were considered valuable advantages. ...

A lot of people think solo founding is about hustle. One person handling product, operations, content, design, and sales all at once. But that idea is already outdated. Because AI is eliminating single tasks. Copywriting, layout, basic design, data organization — a massive amount of execution work is being automated. This means solo founding is no longer about one person doing more work. It’s about one person operating at a higher level, directing AI to complete tasks. ...

Many people today are asking the same question: Will AI take my job? Recently, I listened to an interview with Marc Andreessen, the founder of a16z, one of Silicon Valley’s most influential venture capital firms. During the conversation, he said something that completely changed how I think about AI. AI doesn’t replace jobs. It replaces tasks. When I heard that sentence, something suddenly clicked. Technology Revolutions Rarely Destroy Jobs Andreessen pointed out that technological revolutions have always followed a similar pattern. They rarely eliminate entire professions. What they usually eliminate are low-value tasks. ...

Recently, I saw a post on X from Elon Musk comparing ChatGPT and Grok. Same question, two very different answers. It was interesting to look at. And for a moment, I also wondered: which one is actually smarter? But after using both for a while, I realized that’s probably the wrong question. In my actual work, I don’t really compare AI tools anymore. ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini — to me, they’re not competing with each other. They’re part of a system I keep adjusting, a kind of workflow where each one plays a different role. What matters isn’t which one is better. What matters is: in which situation, which tool helps me actually get things done. ...

I didn’t start out building things with AI. In the beginning, I was mostly using it the same way everyone else was — writing content, organizing thoughts, brainstorming ideas, trying to feel more productive. It helped, but if I’m being honest, I was mostly producing more of the same. More drafts. More notes. More unfinished ideas. The real shift didn’t happen through content. It happened through work. Slowly, through trying to build things that actually existed outside the screen. ...

Every conversation about building a website eventually comes back to SEO. It’s the default assumption: good content plus good optimization equals traffic. That formula held for a long time. But the conversation is quietly shifting. GEO — how your content gets picked up and used by AI systems — is becoming just as important. Maybe more so, for certain types of content. The problem is most people are still optimizing for 2020. ...

For the past few years, the conversation around AI has mostly been about capability. How powerful is the model. What it can do now that it couldn’t do before. Whether it’s getting smarter fast enough. That conversation made sense when access was limited and technical skill was the bottleneck. But something has shifted. And I’ve been trying to put words to it. 01 — The Barrier Has Moved Not long ago, building something real required a specific kind of knowledge. You needed to understand systems, write code, or hire people who could. That created a natural filter — not everyone could participate, so the people who could had an advantage just from being able to show up. ...

There’s a particular kind of pressure that comes with watching everyone around you adopt something new. AI agents are everywhere right now. People are automating workflows, delegating research, building systems that run overnight without human input. The demos are impressive. And if you’re not using them, the implication seems to be: you’re already behind. I’ve felt that pressure. I’ve also actually tried these tools. And my conclusion — which I know isn’t the popular take — is that I’m choosing not to use them right now. ...