JOE FRIEND | Rebuilding with AI.

15 years as a commercial photographer, now rebuilding toward $100K in new AI-driven revenue in 180 days. Zero technical background. Sharing my whole journey.

[JOE FRIEND | Rebuilding with AI. @SUPERFRIENDAI]

Today, I've made the decision to start the transition from commercial photographer to AI entrepreneur, and I wanted to give you a little bit of insight behind this endeavor.

[JOE FRIEND | Rebuilding with AI. @SUPERFRIENDAI]

Personal agents have defined 2026 but now,Multiplayer AI agents are here. and honestly they are the future. I can guarantee you Claude and ChatGPT will be following soon.

[Grok Bot @bot]

Introducing Team Bots, shared AI teammates that learn as your team works with them.

Give your Team Bot the skills, plugins, and credentials it needs for its role, then work with it in Slack or Grok Bot.

[JOE FRIEND | Rebuilding with AI. @SUPERFRIENDAI]

We live in a crazy time. OpenAI coming in hard for consumer AI. Could this be a muse killer? Pretty stoked to try this out! @Meta @OpenAI @ChatGPT

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Introducing dots, powered by GPT-6 Astra.

Remarkably capable, always-on agents built to handle everything.

[JOE FRIEND | Rebuilding with AI. @SUPERFRIENDAI]

Tell me more

[Diogo Almeida @CompleteSkeptic]

After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to AGI?

I’ve spent the last 2 years in stealth building a new way to train models (RLCD), and a new type of frontier AI model that we are releasing today: Jev

• 20-200x faster
• 40-400x cheaper (w/ output tokens free)
• Frontier composable intelligence optimized for decisions

AFAICT the shortest path to AI-based economic revolution

[JOE FRIEND | Rebuilding with AI. @SUPERFRIENDAI]

@lydiahallie Amazing news!

[JOE FRIEND | Rebuilding with AI. @SUPERFRIENDAI]

maxing out Fable 5.1 credits pretty quickly even though its cheaper to run that 5. I guess I'm excited to build!

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

the best 20 accounts to follow in AI:

@karpathy = learn LLMs
@steipete = learn openclaw
@gregisenberg = learn startup ideas
@rileybrown = learn vibecoding
@corbin_braun = learn cursor
@jackfriks = learn solo apps
@levelsio = learn solo startups
@marclou = learn solo startups
@EXM7777 = learn AI ops + systems
@eptwts = learn AI money
@alex_prompter = learn prompting
@mardehaym = learn enterprise AI
@vasuman = learn AI agents
@AmirMushich = learn AI ads
@0xROAS = learn AI UGC
@AndrewYNg = learn AI engineering
@kloss_xyz = learn systems architecture
@emollick = learn AI science
@Hesamation = learn AI/ML
@claudeskills101 = learn Claude

follow them all and learn.

[JOE FRIEND | Rebuilding with AI. @SUPERFRIENDAI]

The clock's ticking, so let's get after it.

[JOE FRIEND | Rebuilding with AI. @SUPERFRIENDAI]

Today, I've made the decision to start the transition from commercial photographer to AI entrepreneur, and I wanted to give you a little bit of insight behind this endeavor.

[JOE FRIEND | Rebuilding with AI. @SUPERFRIENDAI]

If you're in the middle of something similar, or scared to say it out loud, follow along and share your journey as well.

[JOE FRIEND | Rebuilding with AI. @SUPERFRIENDAI]

The truth is, I'm nervous. I'm scared. I've spent my whole adult life in one industry, and I've got a family counting on me. I need to make changes, so I'm going for it.

[JOE FRIEND | Rebuilding with AI. @SUPERFRIENDAI]

I hope it inspires other people thinking about changing careers or getting into AI, and shows you what's actually possible.

[JOE FRIEND | Rebuilding with AI. @SUPERFRIENDAI]

So here's the plan. I'm calling the new venture SUPERFRIEND AI. My intention is to document the whole journey. The pretty parts, the ugly parts, the struggles, the wins, the lessons.

[JOE FRIEND | Rebuilding with AI. @SUPERFRIENDAI]

That goal: six months, $100,000 in profit from AI consulting, concierge work, and built systems for other businesses. And I'll be posting and sharing the real version, including the parts I'm bad at.

[JOE FRIEND | Rebuilding with AI. @SUPERFRIENDAI]

I'll be super vulnerable and transparent. This is also coinciding with real financial pressure in my business right now. I need to make fast, disciplined changes, and move quickly toward a goal.

[JOE FRIEND | Rebuilding with AI. @SUPERFRIENDAI]

That's why I believe every professional needs to become AI-first. Not eventually. Now. I'm proving it on myself first.

[JOE FRIEND | Rebuilding with AI. @SUPERFRIENDAI]

Then something clicked. I taught commercial photography at Rocky Mountain School of Photography for years, voted best class of the year, three years running. Turns out I never loved the camera as much as I loved taking someone from confused to capable. Same job, new subject.

[JOE FRIEND | Rebuilding with AI. @SUPERFRIENDAI]

So for months I made every excuse available to me. I don't know enough. I have to stay a photographer, that's who I am. I don't have a technical background. I'm scared of an industry I never trained for.

[JOE FRIEND | Rebuilding with AI. @SUPERFRIENDAI]

It's been a bit of a status symbol. Building something new next to it felt like erasing a version of myself I liked.

[JOE FRIEND | Rebuilding with AI. @SUPERFRIENDAI]

But here's the part that took longer to admit than anything else. Photography has been my identity. My community. The thing I introduce myself as, the thing I'm known for in my friend group and my city.

[JOE FRIEND | Rebuilding with AI. @SUPERFRIENDAI]

New business possibilities kept showing up everywhere I looked. Most of what I consume now is about building and growing an AI business. I'm testing, building, and learning constantly, and I can't stop.

[JOE FRIEND | Rebuilding with AI. @SUPERFRIENDAI]

But this year I got obsessed with something else. AI knowledge work, AI agents, automation, the systems underneath how a business actually runs. Not casually. Photography hours started going to it, then most of my free time.