First Of Many

Currently working on my first educational post about Order Blocks. Will post the article on X this week.

We're getting to a point with AI where pretty soon people will be generating their own apps on-demand rather than buying pre-made apps. It'll become the norm at some point. Prob within 1-2 years. Imagine this: You need a specific to-do list app that integrates your calendar and plays a Backstreet Boys song every time you finish a task, or something. Instead of searching in the app store, you just prompt AI and it generates it in seconds. Bam you have the app installed and ready to go within 1 minute. In the future, instead of choosing which software to buy we'll be choosing between AI models that have been specifically tuned for coding. It's already happening pretty much. Any AI power-users reading this rn will know it. You can already create all sorts of stuff without coding knowledge (check out the vid in the comments), but for more advanced stuff atm you need coding knowledge to fix the bugs. Right now regular ppl can only really create simple apps bug-free. It'll prob take another year for AI to improve enough to where noobs can create legit stuff, then another year for people to catch on and start habitually creating apps instead of buying apps. This changes things cos now sales get siphoned to these big AI "black box" services rather than traditional marketplaces, not only for coding/software but for basically every single industry. In that way, it's a new era. It's a good time for ideas-people and entrepreneurs. Not so good for people whose livelihood depends on one technical skill. Cos it's never been easier to create the big idea you've always wanted to do, but at the same time... it's never been easier to do things that you'd usually hire someone with a technical skill to do. And think of it this way, the quality level that AI is at today is the worst it'll ever be...! It'll only get better. If you're a person with one specialist technical skill (or you're a white-collar worker) and you're worried, the best thing you can do to get ahead of this is learn PROMPT ENGINEERING, learn about how AI works on a deep level so that you can wield it to work FOR you instead of replacing you. That means creating stuff that accelerates your productivity, but also using it to accelerate your growth, or to be a strategic partner, or to brainstorm with, or to audit yourself, or creating your own course on some skill you wanna learn, etc. The possibilities are really only limited by your imagination, so experimentation and iteration is the ticket. Here's how i see the future: In a world where EVERYONE has all these amazing capabilities due to AI, what value can ppl provide to ppl in order to make money? Imo the differentiating skills will be: Branding, connecting dots/ideas, and execution. There'll be less businesses with big teams and more individual personal brands where their team is AI. Ai isn't going away, it's far too profitable for big tech. The toothpaste is out of the tube now, there's no going back. We're entering into an AI era whether we like it or not. Might as well use it to your advantage rather than get left behind scratching your head wondering "why didn't they tell us this would happen". Well, it's happening. Follow the money: xAI has spent $400million on a supercomputer, and $2.6billion on a data center, with plans to spend $18bil more. And that's nothing: Google spent $29billion and Amazon $16bil on AI infrastructure (massive GPU centers etc) in just the 1st half of 2024 alone! It gets crazier: Facebook/Meta has spent at least $68billion so far, and Microsoft has spent $70bil. And that's not even mentioning OpenAI and the "Stargate" deal that the US govt made (projected $500bil). It's full steam ahead for big tech, and there are improvements every week. I've been following AI developments on a daily basis for like 10 months (and casually for like 3 yrs before that) so i've gotten a feel for the trajectory, and i'm convinced that the parts of society that don't learn AI will get left behind. It's not ideal, but it's real. Consider this your heads up to get on the front foot and learn prompt engineering. It's not too late. There's probably gonna be a 2-5 year golden period of discovery/innovation and that's where the opportunities lie. There are some mind-blowing use-cases and a lot hasn't been discovered yet. Don't get left behind, fren. Learn prompt engineering. Do it.

Once upon a time, I was surrounded by voices from teachers, parents, and those closest to me, telling me that certain dreams were beyond my reach, because if they couldn't achieve them, why would I right? Destinations and experiences I yearned for were deemed exclusive to the rich and famous, leaving me to chase them only in my imagination, glimpsed through the screen on my phone. At 15, my perspective shifted dramatically. I began to question everything, much to the dismay of those trying to mold me to become +1 sheep. School, for me, was a puzzle. I couldn't grasp why we spent countless hours learning about ancient history, the intricacies of biology and geology, or the philosophies of minds set on entirely different paths. It wasn't that all school was pointless, but so much of it felt disconnected from the skills needed to truly thrive in life. A lot of what we was learning didn't really match who we are, and I believe on enhancing people's hidden talents, in stepping away from the herd to discover and master what makes us unique. But, this isn't how the system is designed, so I chose to resist. I chose to fight against a path laid out by others. A rebellion that started in my teens and will continue indefinitely. If you relate to any of what you've read so far, maybe is because you're destined to be more than just +1 🐑 Had I followed the script written for me, I might have ended up in a job that brought neither joy nor fulfillment, clocking in and out, far removed from the dreams that once danced in my head. When I look around, I'm astounded by how many people don't realize the incredible earning potential available today. Every day, people are making thousands of dollars just using their laptops and mobile phones, while most are breaking their back working dangerous and stressful jobs for well < $100K per year. This is madness. All those people simply refused to adapt to evolution, and are stuck in outdated ways, but it's actually their own choice. They're the ones refusing to search for opportunities, and there's so many life changing opportunities... I’ve learned that the path to doom is crowded, while the road to freedom is just a few steps in the opposite direction. Fight for your freedom, regardless of your starting point. In this era, where information is golden and opportunities abound, anyone can transform their life. Just remember, without self-belief, the journey cannot begin. Don't waste time fighting the system. You can't change it. Instead, adapt to it and avoid it's life ending traps. Let this be a message you never forget: Where you come from does not dictate where you can go. I wil never forget those days when many would tell me i'm not "lucky" enough to ever experience a place like this, but guess what? - Against all odds, i made it happen.