Change

…The wrecking ball of change is here in the form of AI.

Simple thing to say right but I get the feeling the the general public won’t know what’s on the doorstep.

Today I wanted to spew some thoughts on how to think about it and potentially get ahead of the thing that’s coming after you and your grandmas.

Speed

When ChatGPT came out, that was a big moment.

We now had something that was super smart that we could talk to through a chat box.

It knew stuff and it quickly became the fastest growing app of all time.

But speaking to people outside of the Twitter/X circle, the knowledge gap is huge.

For us nerds, it’s the difference between using GPT 3.5 Turbo and using Claude Sonnet 3.5.

Huge difference to those who know.

For everyone else, it’s a “yeah I tried it but it wasn’t that good” kinda conversation.

This is the point where you check their phone and you see they’re using a knock off ChatGPT app and they’re one phone call away from sending their life savings to Nigeria.

But in all seriousness, when things change as fast as they have done in the last 24 months, people will undoubtably be left behind.

And, it’ll leave a mark.

To the everyman it’s hard to comprehend how a chat box is going to leave them short of a job but as we know that’s missing the point.

It’s already better than you.

AI models are already more capable than the 90% of humans, so when integrated correctly it’s bye bye to the meat machines that used to CTRL + C → CRTL + V from 9-5.

Now scale that up across any job that requires tapping keys or using the phone and can imagine the pickle people might be in.

There is a way out however.

Wanna guess what that is?

Replace yourself with AI before someone else does.

In reality this looks like hunting down the tools that can assist you with doing your job more effectively that before and learning how to use them.

We could spend a ton of time running through every use case here but here’s 10 simple examples from our friend Claude.

If each of these task usually takes X amount of minutes, workout how many times a given task is done then figure out how much time it would save each year.

Stack these up and this could be the difference between a job saved and a job lost.

This is only going to be a short post on this topic to help get you thinking but there will be deeper dives to come.

The main takeaway should be…

If the answer is yes or maybe, taking the bull by the horns to find this out could be the difference maker in the next couple of year.

That’s it for today and I hope you find a task to hand off to an AI!

Tom