I’ve been thinking a lot about the consequences of AI and what it means not just for businesses, but for the average person walking down the street and i've received inspiration from the room of light.
Software is about to become dust-cheap, what once took a team of engineers months to build will now take one person a few weeks or less. Enterprise-level software? It’s becoming trivial to spin up.
This is because there will be alot of competition in the market as it's becoming incredibly easy and cheap to create these software. The edge now lies not in ability to build, but in novelty and storytelling
Everyone can build but not everyone can see.
AI-driven tools have reduced entry barriers across every knowledge and creative domain to near zero. Now the average individual will be able to produce the work of an expert or team of experts in a fraction of the time and cost
Want a simple website/app for your business? You wont need to hire anyone, Just describe precisely what you want and pay a fraction of what you would pay an expert. And you can easily make any changes you need on the site
Want a marketing promo video for your business? No need to hire professional actors, or a production crew, just describe what you want and you'd get it for a fraction of the cost
Want to bring your novel to life? AI would be able to create a beautiful movie for you
And so much more examples, i could go on and on, these tools largely exist already but in due time they will become more and more available to the average person and be more advanced than they are
Yesterday i showed my brother an AI tool where you just describe what design you need and it creates the Figma designs you can iterate on, he's into UI/UX design, he was stunned.
AI has basically democratised access to both knowledge and creative capabilities, erasing traditional barriers between experts and novices, the sacred space between expert and novice has collapsed. Anyone with curiosity and courage can now step into places previously reserved for the anointed few.
This shift won’t just affect software and design. It’s coming for research, for animation, law, filmmaking, medicine, finance, ...etc. The only things left to distinguish one from another will be true originality and smart communication. If everyone can build, the ones who will stand out are the ones who can think (bringing genuinely new ideas) and tell a compelling story.
There will still be "experts," but that title won’t mean what it used to.
"Tech bro"... it will end
"World-class designer"... it will end "Computer wizard"... it will end
The average person will be able to do what you do to a surprising extent. That hard-earned title, that identity built on skill scarcity, it's being levelled. You're not being replaced, you’re being equaled.
So what should you do?
If you’re an individual:
find out the tools in your field and master them, not surface-level familiarity but mastery. Don’t be the person who gets replaced by a button because you refused to press it. Be the person who knows what to press and when. The people who know how to wield the new tools will outrun those who don’t
If you run a business:
One of the most important teams you need to have going forward is R&D. People who are always cooking, always thinking, always tinkering, always shaping the edge. It’s not enough to be good at what everyone else is doing, you must be first at something worth doing, you must be novel.
And then pair that novelty with powerful marketing. People don't just buy products; they buy stories, identities, beliefs. If you build something new, but no one hears the music, it won’t matter. The one that tells the better story gets the market
The business that took you years to build can now be cloned in weeks by someone working out of their room. What will you do? Complain? Or evolve?
We're living in exciting times i tell you, exciting times indeed
The tools of digital creation have been handed to everyone. Everyone is now a maker, the true wealth/value now lies not in your hands, but in your heart. Not in how much you know, but in how clearly you can see.
If you have eyes to see, now is the time to shape, if you have ears to hear, now is the time to build
Spirit, story, and sight are the new edge
The world is resetting, the playing field is flattening, the curtain is rising
The kings are coming out of hiding
Ciao!