AI Let Anyone Build Anything, but Your Only Real Competition Is Your Own Mind
thedankoe · x · 2026-10-30
The author argues that while AI has made it possible for anyone to build anything, everyone was already distracted—and AI just made distraction 10x worse. Your competition was nonexistent to begin with; the only real competition is your own mind.
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