Wow. Just saw the news that TIME's 2025 Person of the Year is the Architects of AI. This isn't just a headline; it's a massive validation of the AI revolution and its accelerating impact! Humanity is now flying down the highway, all gas no brakes, toward a highly automated and highly uncertain future. Who are the Architects of AI on Time magazine cover: The eight figures sitting on the beam (pic below) are: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, AMD CEO Lisa Su, Tesla and xAI CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and AI scientist and World Labs founder Fei‑Fei Li. The article highlights a few key points that I think are crucial for us as we navigate this space: 🚀 The AI Sprint is ON! The debate over responsible wielding has officially given way to a sprint to deploy as fast as possible. - Jenson Huang (Nvidia): Calls it the “single most impactful technology of our time.” His $5 trillion company's continued record-breaking success proves he's right. - Adoption: OpenAI's ChatGPT is now at 800 MILLION weekly users. AI isn't niche; it's mainstream and essential. - Global Competition: AI is now seen as the "most consequential tool in great-power competition since the advent of nuclear weapons." China's AI+ Initiative aiming for 90% economic use by 2030 is an aggressive signal. 💰 The Compute Arms Race The sheer capital flowing into infrastructure is staggering: - Hyperscalers (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta): Pledging a combined $370 billion this year for data centers and AI infrastructure. - The Cost: Companies like OpenAI are projecting a $9 billion deficit in 2025 because their costs are rising faster than profits as they shovel money into new data centers. This highlights that the barrier to entry is only getting higher. 🤔 Bubble or Boom? The Utopian Vision Despite the massive costs, the vision remains boldly utopian: - Near-Perfect Efficiency: Predictive logistics, dynamic routing, and climate-adaptive precision farming. - Job Transformation: Not mass destruction, but improved small-business competitiveness and the seeding of novel job categories (development, oversight, maintenance). - A World Living "Like a King": Economy grows, prices drop.

I’ve noticed myself being less amused by videos or pictures that look “so” incredible. I’ll figure that it is probably AI…. I have that hunger for real life/unedited material. What is the person really like? Sometimes posts that are so perfect that three years ago they would be amazing to read, now…now it has lost its brilliance because I figure it was an AI and not a human. Does anyone else feel this way? There was a talk by..I forgot his name, but he talked about not using AI for right brained things, and use it for left brained things. I loved his talk. He was a Harvard professor that taught happiness.

Notice that the more efficient you become, the more predictable your own thinking gets? And if you’re mindlessly using AI to optimize your work, you're dabbling in endless sameness, and accelerating the speed of delivering "average.." I've spent years in tech product watching teams prioritize speed over authenticity, only to realize that the real innovation wasn't in the tools and products ultimately conceived, but in the courage to challenge the underlying assumption of efficiency itself. True creative power comes from the deliberate act of breaking patterns to provoke new insight, which AI can help with if used right.. But if you’re using it only to find answers, you’ll only ever find the average.

Automation starts with rules. This fictional crossover shows how explaining those rules—heat, timing, conditions—helps people trust the outcome, whether it’s a recipe or a workflow. How do you explain decisions in your own systems?