How are you positioning yourself in the age of AI?

I feel like the AI space right now is one of the most controversial spaces online, there is clearly 2 groups of people forming:

Group 1: believes that AI is the future if you are not jumping on the latest trends you are getting left behind, they automate their whole life while working with a 3 monitor setup and 6 claude terminals open

Group 2: believes the total opposite they believe AI is just a shiny object, the only value left is the things humans can do or they outright hate AI bc it creates slop and they think it will take their job...

the AI fans are automating thing that shouldn't even exist in the first place, they are building the same app that already exist, they are psyopping themself of being productive while they are falling into a deep AI psychosis, just think about it do you genuenly saw an increase in productivity of output with the people around you who are using AI or rather just a PERCEIVED increase of productivity?

I saw a comment under a claude code video that said: "Productivity is the new entertainment."

but its easy to make fun of the people trying out new things I feel like the anti-AI people are also wrong, we sometimes forget that ai is a reflection of ourselves (garbage in - garbage out) if you don't know what you want and write bad prompts no suprise you think ai sucks...

So these people totally abandoned ai becuase they look at the AI fans and they think they are psyopped and they write AI down as a shiny object, and believe only the stuff humans make will matter...

AI did something weird to the market: it raised the floor without raising the ceiling. Suddenly, anyone can produce B-minus work in seconds. So B-minus became invisible. But A+ didn't get easier, because A+ was never an execution problem but a taste problem.

Both groups are wrong because both are reacting to AI instead of asking the only question that actually matters: what am I that AI isn't? Group 1 doesn't ask it because they're trying to become AI. Group 2 doesn't ask it because they think the answer is "everything". The real answer is more specific, and it points to a third group.

"The Creative Director with an AI agent team."

A Group 3: that no one is really talking about people who understand that most AI use cases are work that shouldn't even exist in the first place and they also see that over the last couple of years bc of social media and instant gratification creativity plummeted...

so these people will take a step back and spend 80% of their time developing their taste, coming up with ideas, exploring their curiosity, and once they truly came up with a cool idea that deserves to be built, that's when they sit down and direct a team of AI agents to execute their ideas.

these people won't chase the latest AI updates to try to "catch up", but they also won't avoid AI

they will understand it is a tool and in a world that's increasingly full of noise and in a world where no one pays for mediocre output the best move they can do is to let the agent team handle everything below their strenghts, like admin, data, entry, consistent execution so they can exist in their own zone of genious the thing only they can do and the thing that the market pays money for.

When execution costs go to zero, one person with taste plus an agent team does what twenty people used to do. The judgment layer just got infinite leverage underneath it.

I feel like in the upcoming years we will see a new type of entrepreneur emerge, thats closer to the idea guy, or a creative director who will spend his day living life instead of being chronically online, rejecting hustle culture so that he can think and develop truly unique and valuable ideas.

The question is which of the 3 groups are you betting your next 5 years on?

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