The Wisdom Wall
7 quotable lessons, heuristics and mental models. Every one is playable at the moment it was said. No fortune cookies allowed.
“until 2023, Being really good at coding, whether that was JavaScript, Python, PHP, or anything else, meant you had essentially 10 X or more the earning potential and the ability to build quality solutions than everybody else in the world. And that has been the fundamental change that has turned everything on its head.”
“people often will complain and criticize about AI writing, but I think what those criticisms miss is that a lot of the writing that needs to get done for businesses to move forward is boring. And it doesn't really matter if it's like poetry or not. Like it just has to be correct and complete and there. Right. AI is…”
“somebody who has a limited amount of time, they're essentially a solopreneur or small business owner as a private practice doctor. Um, they've got some money to invest in speed. And automation, and they value their time a lot. They were very early adopters, even though they weren't techie in purchasing what we now call…”
“Where we find that chatbots and RAG, which is essentially Taking documents and putting them into a, uh, vector database so AI can read them, right? AI that can read your documents in a custom way is RAG. Uh, when you think about a chatbot in RAG, the value there is giving it to your internal team, right? At the company…”
“you don't even need it to be a super fancy automation because the amount of time that's being saved, even with the final copy step, and you want the human in the loop anyway, to do that review, you're still saving such a huge amount of time that it's worth it for people.”
“anybody who's spent 24 working hours with Claude Code can also build a prototype of your thing pretty much over a weekend as one person, right? So you've got competition from the big players. But you've also got competition from the tiny do-it-yourself players, which are just, you're kind of getting, you know, eaten…”
“The other thing is that consultants who are building bespoke projects for clients repeatedly are not exposed To those same challenges, because by virtue of hiring a consultant, the client is essentially saying the Google Gemini built-in tool is not appropriate or sufficient for me. So I'm going to bring Andrew in to…”