Hot take: Complaining about 'AI slop' and anxiously hoarding AI courses are the same inaction
sujingshen · x · 2026-10-15
A long Chinese essay argues ordinary people's best move now is using AI to land real business results and primitive capital accumulation, not critiquing AI or hoarding tutorials. The author writes a series documenting products he shipped but that made no money, stressing failure is the norm. The core framework: a dividend is a time gap — while production costs fall faster than market prices, customers still price by the old cost anchor (e.g. hundreds for studio headshots vs. a few yuan of AI compute), and that spread is your margin window. Criticizing AI and anxiously learning AI are both forms of not acting.
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