AI today is like early electricity: impressive but unstable. When washing machines arrived, people had to swap light bulbs in and out, causing accidents. We're in that dangerous phase with AI now, before the real transformation hits. Either redesign your job around AI or your employer will redesign you out of it.
It's obvious to me that AI 5 years from now is not going to be recognizable. So let's talk about electricity for a second. It used to be there was only one electrical outlet in the house. It was a light bulb. There were no things with prongs that you could plug in. So if you got a washing machine, which was the first giant time-saving invention, you had to unscrew the light bulb and screw in the washing machine. I didn't know that. And it would sit in the middle of your living room, and it wasn't very well balanced, so it rocked back and forth. And sometimes it would move, and more than a dozen times its movement would wrap the cord around the neck of somebody in the house and kill them slowly. So plenty of people said electricity is horrible, we need to have nothing to do with electricity. So right now we're in the washing machine phase. So AI is doing some cool things. It's not costing too many people their job yet, but it's about to be this very significant transformation. And the short version is, if you do a job AI can do, either you're going to figure it out first and change your job so that AI works for you, or your boss is going to figure out first and you're going to lose your job.
