It’s eight in the morning, and if you’re not orchestrating 42 agents while brewing your coffee, you’re already a glowing idiot!
Seriously? Come on. Enough with this bulls**t narrative.
AI is not a new religion, it’s not black magic, and it’s not a shortcut to becoming a millionaire while you do something else.
What we’re living through every day is simply the latest step in a trajectory of progress we’ve been watching for years. Powerful, disruptive, consequential — sure! But not unexpected. Not unmanageable.
The real problem isn’t AI. The real problem is social media overrun by hype merchants churning out slop content at full throttle, pushing anxiety as a business model to farm views: ‘If you’re not using this agent, you’re accomplishing nothing’, ‘If you haven’t automated everything, you’re worthless’, ‘I built ten companies this morning by orchestrating autonomous agents — what did you do?’
Me? I’m eating a croissant and enjoying a cappuccino. I’m breathing. And that’s perfectly fine.
The truth is far simpler: if your work is built on manufacturing unnecessary complexity, AI will be a problem for you — not because it will replace you, but because zero-sum games are always won by bigger players, and you’re a small fish. Like me. Like everyone.
Instead, focus on creating more value than you consume. Life isn’t a hundred-metre sprint. It’s a marathon, and you matter as long as the community of people who recognise your value keeps doing so over time.
If we stopped chasing the toxic storytelling of the total-efficiency race and started asking ourselves for whom and why we’re building things, we’d realise that AI is simply unlocking value…
Or maybe I’ve got it all wrong and tomorrow we’ll all become little Agent Smiths.