You have enough AI.
Now go DO something with it.
Today’s models, even Google’s fast, cheap Gemini Flash, are absurdly smart. Smart enough that if there were no new anything, you’d have enough AI for the rest of your career.
Seriously. Almost every current model passes Diamond GPQA (PhD-level reasoning tests) at or above human PhD candidate levels now. OpenAI o3-pro and Gemini 2.5 Pro are WELL into the actual PhD territory.
We’re at the point where, if you’re not getting good results from AI models, the problem is between the keyboard and the chair.
Katie Robbert talks about this a lot, and in this week’s In-Ear Insights podcast (coming out tomorrow morning!), we discuss this sophomore slump where a big part of the problem is that people are mentally stuck in 2023.
You’re still thinking about how to steer a horse when the technology has evolved to a Harrier attack jet. You’re looking for where to put the bridle and reins. It’s not going to go well.
So here’s one way to break out of this quagmire: ask yourself what you could BUILD today. Start easy, with something like an infographic, and work your way up to building actual products and solutions.
For example, last night, I couldn’t get to sleep, so I worked with Gemini to build a product requirements document (PRD) for speech diarization. If you’ve used tools like Otter, Fireflies, etc. you know exactly what this does – take audio, produce transcripts with speakers broken out.
After the PRD, we built a workplan, and then we built the code. After some debugging, I had working code that could transcribe old episodes of Marketing Over Coffee. All this happened between 9 and 11 PM, when I could finally get to sleep.
I now have my own transcription tool that can transcribe as much audio as I want for just the cost of my own electricity, nothing else. No monthly fees. No minutes balance. And the quality is quite good, though there are some bugs I’ll work out eventually.
It’s not about the technology any more. It’s what you DO with it. Try building something today – an infographic, a browser game, anything that’s putting the technology to use.
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