Three Years Ago, I Was Frankenstein Being Chased by Industry Insiders With Pitchforks** When we started @CuriouserAI, the reaction from the AI world was not subtle. “You want to do what?” "Slow people down and use AI to help people think more critically and solve problems for themselves?") "Are you nuts?" "Who wants to think!" At the time, the dominant assumption was simple: Generative AI would do the prompting. Humans would do the complying. AI was designed to make thinking easier. The problem with that is thinking is not easy and it's not supposed to be. The future, we were told, was all of humanity prompting machines with almost no one stopping to ask what this might do to us. We were already seeing early signals. People outsourcing judgment. Work regressing to the mean. Brain rot. Speed increasing while quality quietly declined. The proliferation of mediocrity (slop). Curiosity replaced with convenience. So we flipped the script. Instead of building an AI that waits to be prompted, we built one that asks questions and essentially prompts you. Not shallow ones. Strategic ones. The kind a great co-founder asks. The kind that slow you down just enough to make you better. An AI that listens. Remembers. Pushes back. And works with you, not over you. That alone was heresy. Then we made a second decision. We said our first use case wouldn’t be the enterprise. We said we wanted to focus on entrepreneurs, builders, and creators people in the messy middle of thinking and building something new. That’s when the laughter really started. “That’s insane.” “You can’t build a serious AI company that way.” “If you want to get funded, you go after the enterprise.” But here’s what we couldn’t ignore. Entrepreneurs and small builders create roughly three-quarters of all new jobs. They are not a niche. They are the economic engine. And unlike large organizations, they don’t need more automation theater. They need clarity. They need better thinking. So we asked a different question: What happens if you increase the probability of success for people who already know how to create value? Even a modest improvement, just 1%, doesn’t move a metric. It changes lives. It means hundreds of thousands of new jobs. Real ones. Human ones. Three years ago, this sounded naive. Or idealistic. Or “different.” Today, the industry quietly admits that speed without judgment didn’t work. Automation without reflection didn’t deliver intelligence. And replacing thinking was never the same thing as improving it. The pitchforks are gone now.

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I can't think of many examples in tech history when open-sourced solutions didn't win in the end, and I am not sure why now will be any different.

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