Relax, AI’s Just Your Next Flex

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Here’s a thought: If AI is “coming for your job,” maybe your job was just a little too easy to begin with?

Relax, take a sip of that overpriced oat milk latte, and let’s zoom out for a second. Every generation has had its “we’re doomed” moment. Radio was going to kill books. TV was going to kill radio. The internet was going to kill attention spans. (Okay, that one sort of happened.)

And now, apparently, AI is coming for everything: your code, your copy, your creativity, your chai latte side hustle.

But let’s get real: when calculators showed up, mathematicians didn’t suddenly say, “Well, that’s it. Pack it up. Numbers are dead.” They learned to use them and started solving bigger problems instead of spending three hours doing long division. When cameras were invented, painters weren’t tossed out of relevance; they evolved, explored, and started movements like surrealism and impressionism. (Thank you, Picasso.) And when sewing machines hit the scene, tailors didn’t vanish, they just started stitching faster.

So why does AI feel different?

Because this time, the fear isn’t about the tool, it’s about the speed. AI isn’t replacing your job. It’s replacing the idea that mediocre effort and average output are enough. And that? That’s the real wake-up call.

Take this moment: Our founder was once asked by a student, “Why should I read books if ChatGPT can just summarize them for me?” A fair question in the age of speed and shortcuts. But here’s the thing—ChatGPT can summarize a book based on the perspectives it’s been fed. It can give you a distilled version, a decent starting point. But it can’t tell you how you would have interpreted it. It can’t form a connection between a quote in chapter four and something your grandfather once said. It can’t challenge your beliefs, reshape your ideas, or spark a deeply personal insight. That’s what you bring to the table. That’s your edge.

Sure, AI can spit out decent designs. It can write passable paragraphs. It can analyze data like it drank three Red Bulls and never blinks. But it can’t build context like a human. It can’t read between the cultural lines, sense the irony in a moment, or write a joke that doesn’t sound like it was stolen from a Dad Joke Reddit thread.

Let’s be honest, AI can do a lot. But you know what it can’t do?

That’s where you come in.

So no, AI isn’t coming for your job. It’s coming to your job. As in, welcome to the team. Now learn how to work with it. Because in this new world, AI is the intern, not the CEO. It’s here to help you move with more precision, more possibility, and fewer excuses. But direction? Vision? Bold taste? That still comes from you.

Because while AI can remix the past, only you can imagine what’s next. And the future doesn’t belong to the ones who fear new tools. It belongs to the ones who learn how to wield them like a lightsaber.

So no, AI isn’t the villain. It’s just the plot twist. And like every good story, what you do with it is what makes you unforgettable.

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