Aha moments

AI is going to continue to divide people based on how much it will change things around here. The skeptics had real arguments two years ago when LLMs were hallucinating, agentic work wasn't really happening, and so on. Models were just not good enough back then. But today, most of those issues are solved.

What I've also seen from skeptics isn't so much that they think AI will fail to live up to its promise as that they hope it will fail so they don't have to change.

Until you have an "aha" moment with AI, you will remain skeptical about the tech, while the gap between power users and everyone else continues to grow.

We need to be clear: human work is still needed. A human behind the machine making good judgment, having good taste, using creativity, seeing a problem that needs to be solved, hasn't gone away, and won't anytime soon. We still need comedians writing funny jokes. We still need impresarios in the nonprofit making connections. We need activists to solve interesting problems.

This tech will 10x your work if you are willing to learn.

The problem? Like most things, there is a learning curve. It isn't something you can vibe your way through. You won't do it overnight. And you have to be patient at the beginning. Until you're willing to put in 100 hours in and willingly go from a state of competence to incompetence, much like learning how to ski or swinging a golf club, you won't see the magic it can produce.

My advice: leap first. Don't wait, because the window may close in a year or two for early adoption. There is so much open space right now for those who want to do work that matters.