Clueless managers and naive aspiring entrepreneurs are falling for the AI hype in the worst way possible. And the economy will suffer for it. Brace yourselves for a year of massive layofffs. And an oversaturation of online businesses that will not succeed. Here is what is waiting for us: - Price correction of big tech stocks - This correction puts short‑term pressure on board decisions - Since everyone has already been called back to on‑site work, there are no more excuses - Short‑term actions = shoving AI agents into everything - Shoving AI into everything = workforce reduction - Small companies tend to follow what big techs do - Small companies start laying people off to replace them with AI agents - Many people end up unemployed - There isn’t room for everyone - Many will decide to become entrepreneurs (with a magical SaaS) out of necessity - Eventually businesses will realize that this corporate‑efficiency push they’re chasing is a generational shift, not something that happens from Q1 to Q2. - We’re just a few months away from a crisis in the AI market in the U.S. Companies have been selling dreams and deliberately lying in their earnings reports. Most LLM companies are not making money. AI is expensive, tokens are expensive. It's an industry that is sustained purely by hyping investors and not by tangible provided value. - Eventually investors find out. More layoffs. More crisis. Many startups get bankrupt. Every crisis comes with opportunities. The people who find solutions to the problems that this crazynes is generating will get rich. Those who buy into the narratives pushed by the tech industry will not. Think outside of the box. Antecipate the problems that will come. Position yourself accordingly and provide the solutions. Be a genuine and serious professional, not a marketeer capitalizing on a trend. Don't just buy into the hype and do what everyone else is doing.

AI is very good at replacing hard skills, not so much soft skills. And I don't think that's going to change any time soon. Hard skills are measurable, technical skills. Stuff like writing code, organizing data, doing math and indetifying patherns. Soft skills are personal atributes, habits and social behaviors. So charisma, sales, empathy and genuine creativity. People who rely more on hard skills than soft ones are the ones who are suffering the most with AI taking their space. The challenges for writing code, creating templates, writing technical texts, finding matching words for a poem or lyrichs you're writing, all of that will be easier. AI will never replace good salespeople, good leaders, good managers, good archtects, good teachers, good marketeers and specially not good parents. The truth is that as the barrier of hard skill lowers, the barrier of soft skills get's higher. The ammount of people competing for selling stuff on the internet, developing apps, creating contentn, selling courses and trying to become influencers is much higher now than it was 5 years ago. So the ones that are succeeding now, amongst all of the competition are not the ones that are good at one specific technical skills, but the ones who are good at dealing with people. If you're good at people skills, if you have human intelligence, you have nothing to be afraid of.

I have a community for unbiased tech discussions and planning, and those are subjects that come very often. ---> QUESTION NUMBER 1: Will AI take our jobs? AI will change the game drastically. It already has and it will continue changing it more and more. So no. AI won't take your job, someone who is good at using it will. Unless you're willing to adapt. Employees will need to be good at using AI and be able to prove it. I'm already at a point at my work that if I have a problem and ask for help before trying to solve with AI, I get a warning. So I need to count on AI first and ask for the help of my colegues second only at the last case. ---> QUESTION NUMBER 2: Can I get rich with AI? There are too man shady people trying to monetize on the AI hype. The times are complicated and there are a lot of opportunities, but also lots of scams. Don't fall for trends pushed by marketing scammers trying to sell you a get rich quick scheme. No, you won't build a multi million dollars SaaS with a prompt. That's bullshit. Even if you get a perfect code, operating a business is much more than that. The market is saturated with AI software slop that fail at solving any real issues. You want to make money with AI? Use it as a tool to solve the problems of your clients. Do a deep market research on what your specific niche requires. Get good contacts with experts. Figure out all the moving parts of a legit business (marketing, finances, law etc). AI is just a tool. It makes the technical part easier. But the business part is still as hard as it ever was, maybe even worse due to the hype and the disillusionment people are feeling after falling for the multiple scams this fad is generating. It's true that you can cut down on costs drastically by replacing staff with AI, but that can go very wrong. Search about the duolingo fiasco after they announced they were going AI first. So be careful. Use AI to your advantage but don't stop valuing human intelligence and the work it takes to develop a serious and legit business.

Automations on Skool are pretty limited and a lot of times frustrating. API is something that developers use to provide automation solutions by allowing an app to talk to other apps/codes. Solutions like Zapier, Make and N8N are basically a way to simplify all of that with no code needed. The problem is that Skool does not have a public API. It is also not featured at N8N. Meaning you're limited to automations on Zapier and Make. Of course automation wizards can go around that, but the alternative solutions are usually complicated and against Skool's terms and services. The Skool integration with Make is basically useless. The only possible action is to Invite a New Member. So we are left with Zapier. Here is what you can do with it: --> Triggers: the starting point of an automation - Membership questions: take the answers of the membership questions and use them to store somewhere or peform an action. The problem: it would be great if it didn't also work for rejected members. So you can't use that for email automations or automatic messages, as they would also include people you don't want inside your community. So it's only decent use case is market research. - New PAID member: that's right, the triger only works for members who paid. If your community is free, you can't use that. And another stupid limitation: the trigger also don't work if a member joined at a free trial! What a joke. ---> Actions: stuff you can do after the automation already started - Invite member: invite a member to a specific classroom course - Unlock course for member: the name says it all That's it. Shitty triggers with annoying and unecessary restrictions and patetically limited actions. No way to automate messages, posts, calendar events, add auto moderation. No way to get info for stuff beyond member's answers. And no open API to get around those limitations in an ethical way. Have you tried using zapier for skool? How do you handle such limitations?

If you want to find developers in the US or Europe, where do y’all look? I’m trying to find people who are far better than me at this game.