One expert tells you not to trust AI with anything important. It just strings together words and tries to sound confident. Another is claiming that he can revolutionize the world in 10 minutes with a magical two-sentence prompt.
In my opinion, boots on the ground for a couple years now? They're both full of shit.
Let me be abundantly clear: AI is the greatest force multiplier for competent people in modern history. We are living through what will be remembered as another revolution in productivity, mentioned in the same breath as the Industrial Revolution, or the Digital Revolution which hasn't even left living memory yet. Everything is accelerating, and everything is going to keep accelerating. This is here, this is right now, and the winners of this story will be the people that accept that reality and adopt the technology.
What It Can Do
I developed and published 4 websites yesterday. All 4 are listed on my Products page:
They contain tens of thousands of verified datapoints EACH, are capable of live updating whenever I want them to, and I can manage them by calling my robotic assistant on my cell phone, having it transcribe what I want done, and then forward my commands to my more powerful AI assistants. I can do this from anywhere that I have a phone signal. It took me three days of work to set up that entire infrastructure, I didn't type a single line of code, and ALL of it works. And because I set up the infrastructure in full, I can make another one in about an hour, or even several in parallel during the same hour.
I don't even have the skillset required to build something like this. I outsourced that to my robots. I defy you to argue that a glorified pattern recognition algorithm could produce something of that caliber.
What It Can't Do
Now, conversely, I don't intend to convince you that there's no work in building these things. The "guru" that claims one prompt will build you a fully functional website or app with no problems, or that they can automate your entire business and nothing will ever go wrong during the integration process—bullshit. All of it.
AI requires a human architect, strategist, and the spark of creativity that a computer can't produce itself. AI makes mistakes. A lot of them. The human who builds these systems is a necessary component to catch those mistakes. I've had my AI tell me confidently that it completed my website project, then gotten on the website and found that it couldn't even load the landing page. I've had it absolutely butcher databases, or get stuck trying to launch the same command that had already failed 10 times while I sat there and watched it just to see what would happen. With time, and strategic utilization of the AI resources at my disposal, I've been able to resolve every single one of those failures and produce the original vision—but it did take time, and it did take a fundamentally new skillset that I developed the hard way.
What We Should Do About It
The beauty, though, is when you combine these two things—the raw processing power and deep access to valuable skills that AI has, with the vision and designs of a capable human, you CAN build systems that multiply one human's output many, many times over. My .1 websites per year in the previous 29 years of my life has become 5 fully published ones in like a month, alongside another 3 or 4 that I have reserved just for testing things.
The reason I'm writing this blog post in the first place is simple: my increasing mastery of AI has given me a truly unique predicament. I have more solutions than I have problems. That is the purpose of my entire company—I want your problems. I want to talk about the ways your business wastes time, the way your employees could 10x their output with just a little bit of training and integrating more powerful systems. If you're interested in joining me in the AI revolution, Contact Us. Let's change something.