Incredible how many people here just don’t believe you because it doesn’t reflect their personal experience.
I want to second your experience as I’ve had the same as well. Tackling SO many more tasks than before and at such a crazy pace. I’ve started entire businesses I wouldn’t have just because of AI.
But at the same time, some people have weird blockers and just can’t use AI. I don’t know what it is about it - maybe it’s a mental block? Wrong frame of mind? It’s those same people who end up saying “I spend more time fighting the ai and refining prompts than I would on the end task”.
I’m very curious what it is that actually causes this divide.
Now is a good time to use it to make money, before it gets to the point where everyone is using it.
I've been using it for almost a year now, and it's definitely improved my productivity. I've reduced work that normally takes a few hours to 20 minutes. Where I work, my manager was going to hire a junior developer and ended up getting a pro subscription to Claude instead.
I also think it will be a concern for that 50-something developer that gets laid off in the coming years, has no experience with AI, and then can't find a job because it's a requirement.
My cousin was a 53 year old developer and got laid off two years ago. He looked for a job for 6 months and then ended up becoming an auto mechanic at half the salary, when his unemployment ran out.
The problem is that he was the subject matter expert on old technology and virtually nobody uses it anymore.
I want to second your experience as I’ve had the same as well. Tackling SO many more tasks than before and at such a crazy pace. I’ve started entire businesses I wouldn’t have just because of AI.
But at the same time, some people have weird blockers and just can’t use AI. I don’t know what it is about it - maybe it’s a mental block? Wrong frame of mind? It’s those same people who end up saying “I spend more time fighting the ai and refining prompts than I would on the end task”.
I’m very curious what it is that actually causes this divide.