There’s a specific type of AI content creator I’ve started to hate.
You know the type. They showed up about six months ago, figured out how to write a prompt that does something mildly useful, and now they talk about artificial intelligence like they personally invented electricity. Confident. Smug. Slightly condescending. The subtext of every post is: “I have unlocked a thing you have not yet unlocked. Keep up.”
I hate that voice. I hate it because it’s dishonest.
Here’s what’s actually happening: the world is changing so fast that nobody has a stable footing. We’re all standing on a moving walkway that keeps speeding up, and some of us are just loudly pretending we’re not. The guy telling you confidently what AI will look like in three years? He’s guessing. I’m guessing. We are all guessing. The only difference is some people are doing it in front of a ring-light.
I’ve built somewhere north of 1,300 automations. I’ve replaced entire manual workflows with AI. I’ve done things with Claude that used to take my team two days and now take eleven minutes. And I still don’t know if I should be worried about my job, my kids’ jobs, or my toaster. I genuinely do not know if the thing I built last Tuesday is going to be obsolete by the time you read this sentence.
That’s not false modesty. That’s just what it’s like in here right now.
What I know is this: the people who are going to figure this out aren’t the ones performing expertise. They’re the ones asking honest questions in public, breaking things, admitting when something didn’t work, and sharing what they actually learned instead of what makes them look smart. The “I got it all figured out” posture is exactly wrong for a moment like this one.
You’re not behind. The person ahead of you isn’t as far ahead as they look. And the confident thing they told you last month might already be wrong, because this thing moves fast enough that yesterday’s best practice is sometimes today’s don’t-do-that.
I started writing about this stuff because I wanted to think out loud with other people who were trying to figure it out. Not to teach. Not to guru. Just to compare notes with people who are also standing on the moving walkway going “wait, did that speed up again?”
It did. For all of us. Let’s figure it out together.