AI

AI changes the price of standardized tasks before it replaces whole occupations.

AI can compress 30 articles into summaries. The important part is preserving the path back to the source.

AI has made getting it right the first time cheap. I keep an add-only notebook of mistakes for it, and this morning I still fell into a hole that was written down in it.

People who think they can outsource their work to AI and just pocket the spread usually aren't stopped by AI being too weak. They're stopped by their own lack of judgment. AI never gives you one answer; it hands you a pile of suggestions that contradict each other, and using it well comes down to telling which one applies now and which one applies later.

An AI side-hustle course dropped its price from 13,400 yuan to 980 in a few days, with one class manager sending 36 nudge messages in 36 hours. That's a psychological game, not a discount — and it points to a better question than "does the method work?"

He cancelled every SaaS subscription and rebuilt them himself with AI. Four days later he said indie hackers like him might be the first developers AI makes extinct. Judgment you can trust comes from testing, not arguing.

After scrolling through my own raise history for the last few years, I finally sat down and looked at the cost sheet every boss stares at: headcount is one row, compute is another, and they point in opposite directions. One drops tenfold a year, the other creeps up a point. Why grinding your skills harder doesn't get you off that sheet, and what you can actually change.

The only niches left for people like us are the ones big companies did the math on and declined. Your edge isn't being better than them, it's being willing to do the grunt work they won't. AI just made it cheaper for them to copy a small feature, so it's worth re-measuring that line.

A delivery pipeline of mine was marked 'verified' for two days without ever touching the line of code that could fail — until it finally crashed on a real batch of 27 records. It made me realize: as teams shrink and AI takes over more of the work, the free layer of humans catching your mistakes disappears with them.

An AI-generated actress just landed an ad deal worth more than most real influencers get. The money isn't buying acting talent. It's buying something that never talks back.

Flash developers vanished five years ago, not because the technology was bad, but because the platforms turned together. This time it is AI's turn.

Ten years as a tech manager, and going through the ledger shows most of my experience is tied to one company's walls — it zeroes out when the badge goes back. What you take with you is the part you can deliver to a stranger without first proving where you worked. AI amplifies this question rather than letting you avoid it.