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You're being left behind.

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For what it's worth, which may be nothing, I remember being told that by NFT people.

NFTs are not useful, claude is.

>claude is

How? I mean what could be the ultimate usefulness of Claude if not to make money, just like NFT but with extra steps. Most people isn't using Claude to make massive paradigm shift breakthrough discoveries. Nobody's curing cancer nor solving climate change. Probably the most common use case for llms it's just speed up the grind and make money. Like nfts.

If curing cancer or solving climate change is your definition of usefulness, almost anything humans do is useless, probably including your own profession. Though I don't want to speculate. Speculation is precisely why NFTs are stupid. Claude, on the other hand, if used effectively, can speed up people's work and increase productivity.

This implies a long road to catch up. But seems to be that all one needs to do to be on the cutting edge is to integrate a few scripts that support a cutting edge model. Which you then converse with in natural language. So how higher will the bar to entry be five years from now?

How am I being left behind by not using AI? I have a fully functional brain that I can use to do anything AI can and better.

You can't do it faster, certainly. But if you used it to do all the things you're slow at, you get all of the above.

Eventually everyone will be without a job other than the Bros working at AI companies.

Or the bubble will implode and we see ourselves at the job queue anyway.

It's a no win trap, except for the tech bros cashing in on investors burning money. Data centers using up the available clean drinking water, people with no jobs paying higher electrical bills, stressing the electrical power grid to the breaking point, historically unparalleled IP theft to divert money away from creators and their content consumed with tokens...

https://isaiprofitable.com/ (Is AI Profitable Yet?)

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/articles/largest-i... (“The largest IP theft in human history”)

https://www.recordinglaw.com/news/authors-protest-ai-empty-b... (Don't Steal This Book)

https://finance.yahoo.com/energy/articles/why-ai-boom-break-... (Why the AI Boom Is About to Break the U.S. Power Grid)

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/1/21/ais-growing-thi... (AI’s growing thirst for water is becoming a public health risk)

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