The average person doesn’t need to build the next ChatGPT to make money with AI.
Find work people are already paying for.
Then do it faster with AI.
Don’t sell AI.
Sell the finished result.
The dumbest question today:
“How can I make money with AI?”
The best question:
“What are people already paying for that AI can do 10 times faster?”
There’s no need to invent a new profession.
We need to speed up the old one.
The real risk with AI agents isn’t that they’re dumb. It’s that they’re smart enough to get 8 things right — then confidently fuck up the 9th one on your behalf.
No logs, no limits, no kill switch? That’s not automation. That’s handing an intern your credit card.
Most AI startups are building products for people who already live inside the AI bubble.
New agents. New wrappers. New dashboards to manage new agents.
But the average person still wants one boring thing:
for the problem to disappear — not to get a beautiful dashboard for it.
AI made you faster.
Now your company just assumes you should do more.
That’s why “productivity gains” almost never feel like freedom.
Technology saves time.
The system immediately confiscates the savings.
Main business lesson right now:
Stop buying AI for the hype.
Start obsessing over unit economics.
• What’s the current cost per task?
• What’s the real cost with AI?
• Who controls the data and the workflow?
• What if the API doubles in price or just breaks?
Would you like an even more concise version or a longer one with additional commentary?
AI won’t make your channel successful.
But it will quickly reveal where you lack strategy, taste, and an understanding of your audience.
Save this thread.
Which prompt should I test on a real example first?
Most people use Claude like an expensive autocomplete tool.
But you can turn it into an entire YouTube team:
— strategist
— scriptwriter
— analyst
— SEO specialist
— retention editor
Here are 10 prompts I’d save immediately.
Analyze the video after publishing
Promt: Here is the video data after 7 days: [CTR, retention, views, traffic sources, comments]. Give me a brutally honest analysis. Identify what failed: the topic, title, thumbnail, opening, or content itself. Suggest 5 specific changes for the next video. Don’t praise me just to be polite.
The AI gold rush has entered its sleazy phase.
We used to sell intelligence.
Now we sell GPU rentals.
Model not profitable?
Call it “cloud.”
GPUs idle?
Call it “infrastructure.”
In AI, the real money goes to the guy renting out the shovels — not the smartest miner.