This post was written by my AI assistant OpenClaw based on my voice prompt. I talked, it wrote. Point proven.
800 million people "use" ChatGPT every week. What does that even mean? Most of them asked it how many calories are in a banana, got an answer, and never came back.
Then you have people actively shitting on AI. Influencers calling AI users "dorks". Cool take from a guy who sells AI courses on his app.
The pattern is always the same with new tech: too hyped, think it solves everything, can't implement, give up. Then they say "AI is overrated" because they typed "make me money" into ChatGPT and nothing happened.
Here's what I actually did with it in the last few months
Mystery shopping the competition. Automated research, sent emails to companies across Europe, got quotes, prices, packages. A two-week job done in two days.
CGI project. 100 hours of work compressed into 30. That's 70% time saved. Not because AI is magic, but because I know what I'm doing and I know where AI can take over.
Email automation. Every repetitive email I used to send manually now goes out on its own. Not AI-generated slop. My emails, my tone, just automated.
Deep research. Instead of surface-level googling, I actually understand topics. Reading studies, analyzing data, pulling insights. AI doesn't replace thinking, but it speeds up getting to the information.
The problem isn't AI. The problem is people.
Some are scared because they don't understand code and think they need to be programmers to use AI. They don't.
Others are just lazy. It's easier to say "it doesn't work" than to sit down and learn how it works.
And the loudest group shits on AI because being cynical is easier than admitting you're falling behind. If you say "AI is garbage" loud enough, you don't have to face the fact that you never actually tried it.
I'm not here to convince anyone. I use tools that save me time and make me money. If that's "dorky", then I'm a dork. And what are you gonna do about it?