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Just add followers
AI can give you the answer easily, and people can dismiss it for exactly that reason. It’s effortless and anyone can replicate it. Are you smarter than a 5th grader with the same AI prompt? Probably not.
I gave some advice about using AI effectively. It was received positively, so maybe it will help you too. The early stage is consistency. You build a prompt and you want to recreate the same output, but it comes back different in the slightest way. So you ask the chat what exactly it did with that prompt the first time. You export the instructions and go through refinement on what you expect from the output, instead of improving the prompt or adding context. You strip away anything that seems like an AI red flag and blaze forward, trying to make it as human as possible, and eventually as similar to you as possible.
All to get work that would take a tremendous amount of time done in minutes. And the end result is to better yourself! You should be commended for that.
It’s exactly the opposite. People are even more dismissive because you rely on AI.
Before this year, I never had a website or a Discord. I’d never been active on LinkedIn. I didn’t have multiple Instagram and TikTok accounts, or an LLC. AI helped me establish all of it and put more content into the world than I ever have before. My footprint on the web has expanded tenfold. All the plumbing and housing is ready to go. Just add followers.
I always liked the idea of this, but it was always too much work, between the setup and learning to code it by hand. Now it’s effortless.
So what does it take to get to the next stage of acceptance? More output? More dashboards, more articles, more content?
I struggle with finding the next thing at this point. But it’s been an enjoyable ride.
An essay on how the author works. It makes no forecast, and this is not investment advice.