You’re going to be sharing your pie with AI, and your feelings about this will depend on your ability to expand the pie.

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I received this question from a reader: “Is AI just a tool or will it be able to hold all of the knowledge on its own and make us obsolete?”

My take is that it depends on where you build and how skilled you are.

• You need to build where building creates more opportunities to build.
• Where building stuff expands your opportunity surface area to build even higher-value stuff.
• Where the more you do, the more there is to do.
• Where the more of your work AI takes, the more work it creates.
• Where every time AI improves and accelerates you towards your goals, it expands the scope of what's feasible for you to accomplish during your lifetime, and the goalposts move further out.

Ironically, this “high future value” stuff is the hardest to automate because you quickly reach a point where further iteration requires doing things that haven’t been done or even thoroughly imagined yet (note that accomplishing these things requires you to be highly skilled yourself beyond what the AI is able to do). So you get in a situation where you have tons of work to do, that AI can’t do yet, and you’re sad about that.

TLDR: you’re going to be sharing your pie with AI, and your feelings about this will depend on your ability to expand the pie.

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