I'm bookmarking this post to implement ASAP. Sharing it too. Excellent information.
What I'm curious to know from you (and your audience) is what do we do with all the people displaced by automation like this? All those consultants and professionals?
I am writing about those topics and the overall intersection of longevity and AI / robotics in my The Long Tomorrow series. I'd love to read your thoughts when you have the time. Steven
Steven, this is THE question everyone's dancing around but not solving.
Here's my hot take: We're asking the wrong question. It's not "what do we do with displaced people?"- it's "how do we turn displaced professionals into system designers who shape these tools and builds?"
Every consultant getting "replaced" has deep domain knowledge that AI can't replicate. They can architect the strategy and guide the implementation.
Will check out your series, always here for someone tackling the hard questions. But my challenge back: What if displacement is just the universe's aggressive way of promoting us all to strategic oversight of our own empire?
Well, Tiff, that's just it . . . transforming or retraining people / experts always has inherent inefficiency and we are all human, remember. I cover some of these hurdles in the "The Myth of the Retrainable Worker" section of yesterday's new The Long Tomorrow article I published:
I'm quite sure that I come at this situation from 1-2 other directions in the later articles that I will publish in August. Lots to think through and discuss on these issues. When you finish-up with your team-up with Daria, circle back with me and we can see about exploring all this moreso in another team-up!
Many of the so-called consultants and services out there should not exist in the first place, were an interim solution, or they are way over-charging. Some are legit, and they simply have a niche audience. That latter group will create custom solutions with N8N, NextJS, and whatever the technology de jour and AI flavor of the day is.
Workflow automation has been around since before AI became available for public consumption. We've been doing it in IT for years. We will learn to use AI just as we learned to use computers in the first place. As a force multiplier.
At one company I worked for, leadership figured out how to use ChatGPT to write press releases. The only thing needed was to replace the placeholder quote from the CEO, a quick review, and off it went. There is no need to pay someone to write a formulaic document with a summary statement.
But, some people may still want to pay for that service or related value-add services. Or, they may build a tool where the customer can enter their details for each release and then schedule them.
Yes, job positions will go away. That is already happening. The offices with 20 people using IBM typewriters and spreadsheets were replaced by a 5 person office using computers and accounting software. My friend lost his job at IBM because of that. That was in the 1980s. This is how things go.
This is gold. So practical, actionable, and focused on real business outcomes, and not just theory. I love how you broke it down step-by-step so anyone can replicate it and get inspired to build their own based on real problems. This post alone can save people thousands. You always deliver such incredible content for your audience, Tiff!!
Thank you Daria! Its all about working smarter, and AI is such a game changer for solo entrepreneurs, it’s really awesome to have access to these tools— before your biz has an “extra” $25k to invest in a consultant
Great job! This shows how quickly AI is replacing expensive consultants. Building your own tools now takes minutes, not months, AND fits your process not the other way around.
Can ChatGPT create similar tools like Claude’s Artifacts?
how are you guaranteeing against hallucinations if this is supposed to replace a human? How does it know the business hacks users take when the data is corrupt?
(From experience doing this in consulting firms….it’s not that simple 😉)
I'm bookmarking this post to implement ASAP. Sharing it too. Excellent information.
What I'm curious to know from you (and your audience) is what do we do with all the people displaced by automation like this? All those consultants and professionals?
I am writing about those topics and the overall intersection of longevity and AI / robotics in my The Long Tomorrow series. I'd love to read your thoughts when you have the time. Steven
https://stevenscesa.substack.com/p/catching-up-on-the-long-tomorrow-ff5
Steven, this is THE question everyone's dancing around but not solving.
Here's my hot take: We're asking the wrong question. It's not "what do we do with displaced people?"- it's "how do we turn displaced professionals into system designers who shape these tools and builds?"
Every consultant getting "replaced" has deep domain knowledge that AI can't replicate. They can architect the strategy and guide the implementation.
Will check out your series, always here for someone tackling the hard questions. But my challenge back: What if displacement is just the universe's aggressive way of promoting us all to strategic oversight of our own empire?
Let's build.
Well, Tiff, that's just it . . . transforming or retraining people / experts always has inherent inefficiency and we are all human, remember. I cover some of these hurdles in the "The Myth of the Retrainable Worker" section of yesterday's new The Long Tomorrow article I published:
https://stevenscesa.substack.com/p/the-long-tomorrow-ai-and-robotics
I'm quite sure that I come at this situation from 1-2 other directions in the later articles that I will publish in August. Lots to think through and discuss on these issues. When you finish-up with your team-up with Daria, circle back with me and we can see about exploring all this moreso in another team-up!
Many of the so-called consultants and services out there should not exist in the first place, were an interim solution, or they are way over-charging. Some are legit, and they simply have a niche audience. That latter group will create custom solutions with N8N, NextJS, and whatever the technology de jour and AI flavor of the day is.
Workflow automation has been around since before AI became available for public consumption. We've been doing it in IT for years. We will learn to use AI just as we learned to use computers in the first place. As a force multiplier.
At one company I worked for, leadership figured out how to use ChatGPT to write press releases. The only thing needed was to replace the placeholder quote from the CEO, a quick review, and off it went. There is no need to pay someone to write a formulaic document with a summary statement.
But, some people may still want to pay for that service or related value-add services. Or, they may build a tool where the customer can enter their details for each release and then schedule them.
Yes, job positions will go away. That is already happening. The offices with 20 people using IBM typewriters and spreadsheets were replaced by a 5 person office using computers and accounting software. My friend lost his job at IBM because of that. That was in the 1980s. This is how things go.
Preach, sir! Preach! Love it.
This is gold. So practical, actionable, and focused on real business outcomes, and not just theory. I love how you broke it down step-by-step so anyone can replicate it and get inspired to build their own based on real problems. This post alone can save people thousands. You always deliver such incredible content for your audience, Tiff!!
Thank you Daria! Its all about working smarter, and AI is such a game changer for solo entrepreneurs, it’s really awesome to have access to these tools— before your biz has an “extra” $25k to invest in a consultant
Daria knows her stuff. I really like trying to keep up with all she writes. Steven
Thanks! This was very helpful!
Great job! This shows how quickly AI is replacing expensive consultants. Building your own tools now takes minutes, not months, AND fits your process not the other way around.
Can ChatGPT create similar tools like Claude’s Artifacts?
Thank you, appreciate your comment! As far as I know, as of today anyway, ChatGPT is not doing this. But you can do something similar with Gemini!
Is this not similar to ChatGPT custom GPTs?
This sounds awesome. I haven’t spent any time in Claude yet. But I can think of a few examples in my professional life. Thank you for writing this!
Glad you enjoyed, hope you get to have some fun with Claude and build cool tools together!
how are you guaranteeing against hallucinations if this is supposed to replace a human? How does it know the business hacks users take when the data is corrupt?
(From experience doing this in consulting firms….it’s not that simple 😉)