My Full-Time Job is Figuring Out How to Make Money For Myself With Tech: Here’s The One Big Lesson Every Beginner Needs to Know to Navigate the Future of Technology and Make Smart Decisions With AI

First a confession: Admitting that AI can be truly helpfully creative was a challenging concept for me to accept.

Yet, AI's creative ability is undeniable, as demonstrated by the sublime awe-inspiring text you are reading now (lol, I’m writing this. I promise…but AI helped).

The Old Days (aka Yesterday):

The other day, I was supposed to enter some set-up instructions into the shell terminal of my cherished sleek space-gray MacBook Pro, fondly named The Hammer (because with it, every problem is, indeed, a nail) but I did something different.

Today With AI:

Rather than blindly copy/paste the magic incantations into my mac, I blindly pasted the instructions into ChatGPT. No fancy prompting. Just plain-old-vanilla copy/paste. And in that one move, I learned more about my Mac’s cryptic black terminal window than I have in years of typing “<command> --help” or “man <command>”, Googling or searching Stack Overflow.

The Future With AI (aka Next Few Months):

AI chatbots don’t just make coding faster; they increasingly make coding accessible to non-techie (e.g., business, or creative) people who wouldn’t have dreamed about deciphering cryptic tech tools. On the other hand, I’m beginning to use AI tools for business and creative media stuff that's getting pretty darn interesting.

The One Big Lesson:

I will probably never replace any world-class analyst/manager, marketer or creative…and they may never replace any world-class tech professionals, like me. But it's not a zero-sum game. We will all just create better stuff for ourselves and our customers, friends, families, employers.