Controversial opinion: AI is making bad businesses survive longer.
Before AI, if your process was broken, you'd feel the pain fast.
Customers would leave.
Teams would burn out.
The cracks were visible. Now?
You can patch every crack with an AI band-aid.
Chatbot covers for bad support.
AI-written emails cover for no marketing strategy.
Generated reports cover for nobody actually analyzing anything.
The businesses that will win in 2027 aren't the ones using the most AI.
They're the ones who fixed the actual problem first and THEN used AI to scale the solution.
If your foundation is broken, AI just helps you scale the brokenness faster.
My biggest productivity gain with AI is not at my peak performance. It is actually the opposite.
At my peaks, AI somewhat distracts me.
But at my lowest, when I don't sleep well, am busy, or lack energy, I still manage to fix issues, ship improvements, and close support tickets almost every day.
I wouldn’t have been able to do that in the past without AI. That is really something.
This new Lego commercial will most likely become the most viewed commercial in history. And it's not AI.
But you should ask yourself, how much did they have to pay them?
Sam Altman predicted the first one-person billion-dollar company.
Matthew Gallagher built a $401M company in year one with $20,000, AI tools, and zero employees.
This year he's on track for $1.8B. With 2 people.
The playbook has changed:
Old path:
- Come up with an idea
- Fundraise from friends or VCs
- Hire a team
- Build the product
- Hope it works
New path:
- Start with an audience (X, Instagram, TikTok)
- Vibe code something for that audience
- Build a community around it
- Automate fulfillment with AI agents
- Repeat
That's the new barrier to entry is a laptop and an idea.
@HBCoop_ Its crazy. Scenes that never happened. Interesting to generate full 4h videos for waiting rooms at doctors or in spa areas as silent background for better mood.
Many layoffs happen because of overhiring, mismanagement, losing market share, or/and higher interest rates compressing revenues.
Attributing all that to AI is misleading.
My secret weapon isn’t code.
It’s Loom.
Client confused about a feature? 90-second Loom.
Explaining a bug fix? 2-minute Loom.
Weekly update? 3-minute Loom instead of a 30-minute meeting.
One client told me - I’ve never had a developer communicate like this.
All I do is talk to a camera instead of typing paragraphs.
One quality blog post that gets 1,000 visitors monthly and converts 50 paying customers is better than an AI mass content programmatic spam production factory that brings 1,000,000 impressions, no clicks, and risks your website being delisted from search.