most of the recent AI takes I’ve seen on my timeline are surface level bullshit so here’s some real thoughts - the real risk of moving this fast isn’t just burnout… it’s that you’ve been trained to believe you have to keep up with all of this. and you don’t. the people who pick one or a few lanes and go deeper than everyone else trying to do everything will dominate - the danger isn’t just AI taking your job. it’s AI quietly taking over your thinking. outsource enough small judgments and one day you can’t tell which thoughts are still yours. protect that brain and your muscle memory, don’t just optimize your time. - AI dropped the cost of getting info to zero, but it did nothing to the cost of turning information into judgment. that gap is where critical thinkers will excel because they can ultimately tell when models are lying or misbehaving. and if you can’t do that, you’ll be the victim of misinformation and very easy to control. - the permanent underclass won’t just be people who don’t know how to use AI. it’ll be the people without access to the best models or the expertise to set up their own local system to compete. everyone will have a system. it’ll be the people who never built the skills to know what to point themselves at that will struggle. and that’s why AI early adopters are outperforming peers. - the free tiers and resets aren’t corporate generosity. they’re performing customer acquisition for a monopoly that hasn’t finished forming. the day one of them truly wins, the costs will be more than the days you’re seeing now. AGI isn’t gonna be cheap. keep your prompts, data, and workflows portable while it’s still affordable to. - open source isn’t an ideology, it’s optionality. the main leverage you hold over a lab is the ability to walk to your own setup when they limit or ration you. - the trap nobody tells you: to get real value from AI you have to feed it your edge. but the scary part, the better AI gets and the more you feed it, the less that edge of yours is worth. you don’t win by hoarding info though. you win by outshipping your peers before these models learn from you and devalue your expertise - drink more water… a NHANES study found roughly 1/3 of US adults are inadequately hydrated… the most advanced tech in the world is useless if your brain is running on an empty tank. drink more water. - walk 10,000 steps a day. you have absolutely no excuse when you have the ability to use these models and code on mobile or via voice. there’s no point in becoming an AI master if your body deteriorates over time. - AI will be here for years. the scarcest resource isn’t actually compute. it’s ensuring you have a clear, rested body and mind to point at all these systems or to know when something’s fishy. so make sure you keep that mind right.

Don't spend so much time thinking about how people think about you We're all going to die Who gives a fuck