AI Can Get REALLY Overwhelming

And what to do about it

I shared this with my friend

Kerry Morrison

today and I thought it would be worth sharing with all of you, whether you are working with AI in some capacity, coding with it every day, or you are just considering how to make AI work for you.

Here is what I learned today — Working with AI can get extremely overwhelming.

If you’ve been a subscriber for a while, you know that in the last couple of months I have built a number of AI projects, some for fun, some for money (I hope). The last most notable few are Scoutzie.com, TranscriptKing.com, SubtitlesKing.com, StartupRevenueGenerator, AttentionHR.com, Dicom Viewer, and a bundle of others I am not even sharing. I’ve been busy.

You can see my Github contributions ballooned when I started to code with AI at the end of January. That’s between 5 and 94 commits per day, in the last 3 month. See for yourself, if you’re curious: https://github.com/kirillzubovsky

Each one took between a few hours, to a few weeks to build. But now that I’ve launched them, some of the apps/projects have SO MUCH CODE under the hood, it would’ve taken me months to accomplish before. I probably would not have done it by my self, to be honest. I’d need a friend, or three, just to make sure everything was working the way it was supposed to. In fact, I have a number of friend running agencies, and that’s what they do, they all have multiple people taking care of stuff. I don’t.

Now that I’ve made all those things, and made them myself, I am still the only person responsible for maintaining all of them, for making sure everything works as expected, and that when I make changes, they don’t all break on me.

The blessing has become a curse.

Now, I am not complaining, I wouldn’t do it any other way. It would be fun to get millions of dollars in funding and have a team, but f*ck it, I am not good at that, but I am good at this! Despite needing sleep, and now a new knee, it feels incredible to do more faster.

Here’s what I would do differently going forward though, and I would recommend you do as well.

Don’t just make the AI do the work.
Plan for how the AI will automate you out of that work.

I am serious, just add extra effort to whatever you are doing to make sure the projects are fully enabled with AI support such that you can go to sleep, confident that your AIs will monitor your projects, and fix them autonomously.

To simplify it outside of coding terms - find a way to use AI to take work away from you, instead of simply enabling you to do more work. You are still a human being. There is no value in suffering, and having done more work simply creates more future work.

This is, by the way, one of the arguments as to why AI will lead to more tech jobs, not less. While some jobs will go away, as we create more and more code using this autonomous tech stack, we’ll need more humans to keep it at bay. The jobs of the future won’t look like the jobs of today, but they are sure not going away.

Alright, that’s it for today.

Here’s a cute raccoon I found on the internet.

Good night!

Kirill