Am I Falling Behind?

I was on a Zoom call… and realized I’m falling behind.

Sure I use AI daily.

To make content, to write copy, to analyze data, to automate processes…

But then I saw what my colleagues are doing.

My buddy Tyler owns a pressure washing company in South Florida. He built his entire website with AI. Fully SEO'd, backlinks, review automation — the whole thing. Then he canceled expensive software company and saved over $1200 annually.

In fact, this is what it looks like.

My friend Casey runs a trading business. He built out his own CRM, replaced HubSpot, set up his own email delivery system, and moved his entire operation off third-party SaaS tools. He told me he's saving over $12,000 annually.

I almost didn't believe him.

Then I got on a call with my friend Daniel.

Daniel's been building AI-powered apps for financial services clients and generating them hundreds of thousands in revenue. Client dashboards, automated landing pages, email sequences, project management systems. All built with Claude and a handful of free or cheap tools.

None of my friends are developers. No coding experience.

I said, “Dan, you need to teach me how to do this.”

He said, “I’ll host if you cohost”.

I said ”Let’s go”!

2 days later he had a working website, backend dashboard, database, website hosting, email delivery…

It’s unreal what’s possible.

Here’s what you get

It’s not enough for me to simply highlight job and career disruption.

I think it’s important to find solutions.

This is 2 days to change your life… Our lives…

I look forward to seeing you in the session!

Alright, let’s talk about what’s actually happening now.

Because if you’ve been paying attention over the last few days, the messaging around AI and jobs is completely split.

So what is it?

Because they’re all looking at the same technology.

A recent CFO survey shows companies are expecting AI driven layoffs to increase this year. And not by a small amount.

AI increases output. That’s the whole point.

People like Jamie Dimon just say it directly.

AI is going to reduce jobs.

Especially in roles where the work is repeatable and predictable.

If AI can handle it, companies are going to use it.

That’s not controversial.

That’s business.

But then you’ve got a completely different angle from Larry Fink.

He’s basically saying, look, you’re focusing on the wrong problem.

The bigger issue is how the structure of work is changing.

Because if companies need fewer entry level roles, where do people start?

The career ladder is uppended!

Then you’ve got founders coming in with a much more blunt take.

The CEO of Perplexity basically said, a lot of people already don’t like their jobs.

So if AI removes some of that work, maybe that’s not entirely a bad thing.

Now you can agree or disagree with that.

But it tells you how some of the people building these tools are thinking.

They see it as a reset.

Anthropic pointed out that users are actually more worried about AI getting things wrong than losing their jobs.

People are asking, can we even trust this stuff?

Because if AI is going to take over work, it actually has to work.

So here’s what’s actually happening.

Companies are already reducing how many people they need.

Executives are planning for it.

Some are warning about the impact.

Others are focused on how work itself is changing.

And all of this is happening while the technology is still getting better.

Now here’s where I land on it.

We will see massive short-term disruption.

AI literacy will be mandatory to function.

Across companies. Across industries. Across roles.

But that’s not the whole story. Because new problems are going to show up.

New roles are going to show up. Things that don’t even exist today.

That always happens when technology moves like this.

So both things are true at the same time. Less jobs in one place. More opportunity in another.

That’s where people get stuck. Because jobs disappear fast. New opportunities take time.

So the question is not whether this is happening.

It is where you position yourself.

You have to look at what you do and ask a very direct question.

What parts of my job could AI handle today?

Not five years from now. Today.

And then the second question.

What parts actually require me?

Judgment. Relationships. Decision making.

That’s where the value is going.

The way I think about it is simple.

There will be fewer jobs overall short term.

But there will be more leverage for the people who know how to use these tools.

And that’s where the opportunity is.

“What would you say you do here?” - The Bobs - Office Space