As a solo founder, I'm finding AI is a double edged sword. On one hand, it's allowing me to be far more productive but on the other, tasks that I would have had to outsource are now being added to a list that already feels overwhelming most days. It's a choice of course and I'm also finding myself over engineering solutions because I feel like I can justify the time spent on it (I'm future proofing the business and myself...right?) but I'm definitely filling hours with 'busy work' rather than facing the tasks that are arguably way less interesting but will genuinely move the needle. Not that that will stop me from setting up my own daily podcast ;)
Separately, I've definitely fallen foul of Meta's AI creative features. I can't tell you how frustrating it is when a friend sends through a screenshot of my ads, only to find that the model has been cut out and put on a completely different background or the carefully considered copy has been rewritten to match the worst sales driven patter ever. To rub salt in the wound, I'm still being charged for these ads, whether they're damaging my brand or not.
I spent Jan + Feb + most of March in sort of deep experimentation mode. Where essentially I migrated from chatbot mode - testing Code a bit - spending an hour or so a day in it - going deep and playing every week - etc etc etc.
April we’ve now had a bit of an internal refocus, and now my AI work is aligned with our OKRs. And so I’m shipping maybe 2-3 times per week but it’s for skills, agents, software that the team is using straight away and therefore delivering impact straight away.
For us, our goal is to be able to do 10x more rather than spend 10x less time, though. So I think we will probably always be ‘full’ of work. But some stuff definitely breathes a little lighter.
As a solo founder, I'm finding AI is a double edged sword. On one hand, it's allowing me to be far more productive but on the other, tasks that I would have had to outsource are now being added to a list that already feels overwhelming most days. It's a choice of course and I'm also finding myself over engineering solutions because I feel like I can justify the time spent on it (I'm future proofing the business and myself...right?) but I'm definitely filling hours with 'busy work' rather than facing the tasks that are arguably way less interesting but will genuinely move the needle. Not that that will stop me from setting up my own daily podcast ;)
Separately, I've definitely fallen foul of Meta's AI creative features. I can't tell you how frustrating it is when a friend sends through a screenshot of my ads, only to find that the model has been cut out and put on a completely different background or the carefully considered copy has been rewritten to match the worst sales driven patter ever. To rub salt in the wound, I'm still being charged for these ads, whether they're damaging my brand or not.
Grumble over...for now!
Yeah the AI thing is definitely a thing.
I spent Jan + Feb + most of March in sort of deep experimentation mode. Where essentially I migrated from chatbot mode - testing Code a bit - spending an hour or so a day in it - going deep and playing every week - etc etc etc.
April we’ve now had a bit of an internal refocus, and now my AI work is aligned with our OKRs. And so I’m shipping maybe 2-3 times per week but it’s for skills, agents, software that the team is using straight away and therefore delivering impact straight away.
For us, our goal is to be able to do 10x more rather than spend 10x less time, though. So I think we will probably always be ‘full’ of work. But some stuff definitely breathes a little lighter.