Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
what they said in 2022
- AI will never replace creative jobs
- Coding is the safest career
- Doctors and lawyers are safe forever
- AI can't understand human emotions
- It's just a calculator, relax
Use it as a tool, not a replacement
what's happening in 2026
- AI is writing scripts, songs, and novels
- AI writes 80% of the code now
- AI is reading your X-ray and drafting contracts
- AI replies to your ex better than you do
- It's writing this caption right now probably 😉
- The tool started using us as a tool
This is exactly what I’ve been saying.
People are grinding LeetCode and DSA, but many startups have already shifted to system design and live coding rounds.
As we move deeper into the AI era, being a strong builder and understanding real world systems matters far more.
DSA and on campus prep have been overhyped for years, especially in the Indian engineering ecosystem. You really see this when you try to switch or explore off campus opportunities.
Most of what you prepare for on campus doesn’t translate well to the actual market.
In the global market, it’s even clearer. Companies don’t care much about your college, branch, or cgpa. What actually matters:
• Skills
• Projects
• Proof of work
If you’re in your 1st or 2nd year, focus on building.
Ship projects. Share them publicly. Document your journey.
Make your LinkedIn, X, GitHub, and resume strong.
In today’s market, that will take you much further than just a degree.
The thing about exhaustion from a 9-5 is that it's not physical. You're mentally empty. You could go to the gym, learn a skill, work on something. Your body can do it. Your brain just refuses to start. So you scroll. Or watch something. And before you know it the alarm is set for 6am again.
Indian men are going bald at 25, gaining belly fat at 28, and getting fatty liver at 32.
Nobody connects the dots.
- Hair thinning at 25
- Belly appearing at 28
- Fatty liver on a blood test at 32
- “Borderline sugar” by 35
- BP medication by 40
You’re treating each one like a separate problem. It’s not. It’s the same body. Same lifestyle. Different stages.
1. The hair was the first warning - He notices the hair at 25.
Buys a ₹1,500 shampoo. Tries oils. Tries serums. Nobody tells him to check his stress, his sleep, his iron, his D3. It wasn’t the shampoo. It was a body running on cortisol, zero protein, and 4 hours of sleep since college.
2.He notices the belly at 28 -
Joins a gym. Goes 3 weeks. Does cardio. Doesn’t change what he eats. Quits. Blames metabolism. It wasn’t metabolism. It was 5 years of Swiggy, sugary chai 4 times a day, and 12 hours of sitting.
3.He gets a blood test at 32 because his company forced it.
Fatty liver. High triglycerides. Borderline sugar. Doctor says “lifestyle changes.” He nods. Moves on. Nobody told him the belly fat at 28 was already doing this - dumping fat into his liver silently for years.
4.He’s on medication by 40 and calls it “family history.”
It never ran in the family. It walked there. Slowly. Through every skipped meal, every 2 AM sleep, every Swiggy order, and every blood test he postponed for 10 years.
The 25-year-old losing his hair and the 40-year-old getting a stent have more in common than they think.
They just met the same lifestyle at different stages.
Your body doesn’t break overnight. It sends warnings for years. The hair was the first one. Most men just bought a shampoo and moved on.
The most destructive piece of internet lore ever created is the phrase: "If they wanted to, they would."
It sounds empowering, but it is actually deeply narcissistic. It assumes that a person’s actions are dictated 100% by their desire for you, while completely ignoring their capacity.
A partner can desperately want to give you the world, but if they are fighting a silent financial war, battling burnout, or dealing with a health crisis, their capacity is at zero. Measuring a stressed partner's love strictly by their ability to "perform" is a lethal mistake. "If they wanted to, they would" is the fastest way to lose a fiercely loyal partner over a temporary lack of bandwidth.
Every tool humans ever built made us dumber at one thing. AI is about to make us dumber at everything.
> The calculator didn't make us better at math. It made us forget how to do it.
> Google didn't make us smarter. It made us stop remembering things.
>GPS didn't make us better navigators. My dad could drive across the country from memory. I can't get to the grocery store without Waze.
> And now AI is coming for the last thing we had left. Thinking.
Every tool we've ever built made one human skill obsolete, we just never noticed because it happened one skill at a time.. But AI isn't taking one skill. It's taking all of them.. at once.
Writing, coding, designing, researching, diagnosing, legal analysis, Strategy. The things we spent decades learning, the things that made us valuable, the things we built entire identities around - AI does them before your morning coffee.
> Peter Diamandis says we need self-control. He's wrong. We needed self-control 2 years ago, Now all we need is a miracle.. Because the brain doesn't crave easy. The brain craves survival. And right now, using AI feels like survival.
Nobody's choosing to get dumber, they're choosing to keep their job.
A Gen Z joined the team.
Week one.
During onboarding, the manager said,
“We sometimes stay late during peak periods.”
Gen Z nodded.
Then asked,
“Is that paid… or just expected?”
The room went quiet.
- No attitude.
- No rebellion.
- Just a question.
Later that day, HR mentioned “growth opportunities.”
Gen Z replied,
“Does growth include raises, or just more responsibility?”
Again, silence.
- No laziness.
- No entitlement.
- Just clarity.
That’s when the team realized something.
When people say
“Gen Z is lazy,”
what they really mean is:
Gen Z watched old generation
- skip meals,
- miss birthdays,
- work weekends,
- and burn out
only to be told
“budgets are tight”
and “be grateful you have a job.”
So Gen Z chose differently.
- They don’t romanticize overwork.
- They don’t confuse suffering with ambition.
- They don’t trade health for praise.
They still work hard.
They just refuse to work for nothing.
It’s not laziness.
It’s pattern recognition.
And honestly,
after everything old generation went through…
Can you really blame them?