Day 23 – Some Thoughts

23 days ago I decided to temporarily stop pursuing client work and restart some sort of entrepreneurial dream – building some of the ideas I’ve had for a while. They’ve been bugging me for a long time, and it’s now or never really.

I’ve never been able to hold down a job whilst attempting to build something else on the side. The job ends up distracting me and takes most of my energy. Whether its a job, freelance or contract, it always takes away the focus.

I would never encourage anyone to do what i’m doing. Life is far easier getting a developer job and enjoying life. If you don’t want a job, contracting is lucrative and flexible. And if you are super organised you can do really well freelancing.

So far 10% of the timeframe has already gone and the rest will go quickly. But at least I will have done something of note with my year. If I really, really can’t get something resembling a foundation up and running within 7 months then it’s sensible to take the easier and saner route.

But for the moment, need to banish those negative thought processes. I’m pretty certain if I just keep going in the right direction eventually I will spot the opportunity. From what i’ve seen far there is an immense amount of interest in AI, and whilst a lot of people know what they are doing with it, there’s a ton that don’t. There’s even more that aren’t looking at it yet.

It’s become cliche to say that AI will change the world but I’ll say my bit:

1. AI has unleashed a lot of creative energy in the development world and innovation is happening very, very quickly. It’s like the human hive mind has been prodded and it’s reacted positively aggressively to it.
2. People who focus on the shortcomings are forgetting to asses where it will be in five years.
3. It’s not intelligent, but it mimics intelligence, hence ‘artificial’ – it is ultimately a very good world documentation service … almost everything you need to know has been compressed down to a digital knowledge cube. It might not be 100% correct all the time, but it’s more than good enough right now which is why uptake is so relentless.
4. The everyday person can use it. There is no technical barrier now to someone being able to make all manner of digital media. And it’s remarkably cheap.
5. When you combine Language Models with OpenCV (computer vision) and then pump them into robots – which are also frighteningly speeding up in as a reality… you realise language models are just another piece of a much bigger puzzle.
6. Eventually people will just communicate with a LM which interfaces with some sort of interface that lets them build ‘apps’ on … but I do think apps will change very much in paradigms.
7. Companies who embrace AI to reduce costs and increase efficiency and effectiveness will see massive profits. But there will be losers.

Anyway thats enough for today.

Cheers