AI fear-mongering is everywhere right now. Scroll through any social media feed, and you'll see headlines about job displacement. Listen to conversations at coffee shops, and you'll hear people anxiously discussing whether their careers will survive the next five years. The narrative is consistent: AI will automate away entire industries, leaving millions unemployed and struggling. It's a legitimate concern on the surface, and the anxiety is real across every continent and every sector.
But here's what gets lost in all that worry: people consistently forget the actual historical pattern of how technology works.
Technology disrupts but it also creates.
- Opportunity
- Abundance
When a new technology emerges and reshapes how work gets done, it doesn't just destroy the old—it simultaneously opens entirely new domains that didn't exist before. New technologies create opportunity and abundance in all the adjacent areas where they intersect with reality. Think about the ripple effects: automation in one sector creates demand for new skills in another. A tool that eliminates one type of job spawns five new ones around it.
The internet is the perfect historical parallel. In the 1990s, people genuinely feared it would obliterate jobs and destabilize economies. Business leaders worried about their relevance. Workers feared obsolescence. The doomsday predictions were loud and confident.
Guess what? It absolutely did disrupt. Entire industries transformed overnight.
Guess what else? It also created millions upon millions of new jobs, opportunities, and abundance for people willing to adapt. Web developers, digital marketers, content creators, e-commerce specialists, social media managers—none of these roles existed before the internet. The abundance wasn't just in jobs; it was in access, information, and economic mobility for billions of people.
Being Afraid of AI
Being afraid of AI is probably the single worst decision you could make right now. Fear locks you into inaction, and inaction means you're already behind.
Not using AI is next on that list. Every day you avoid learning it, experimenting with it, and building with it, you're ceding competitive advantage to people who aren't waiting around.
What to Do Instead
I'm not saying you need to suddenly engulf your life in AI. Some of us are. I know that I have. It has drastically improved my workflows for various things. Along with building Rafiki 3.0 (LeoAI) it has also become a critical part of how we build the LEO Ecosystem.
Claude Code, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Codex... the list of breakthrough AI models continues to expand. Expanding with this list is also the potential of what you can do with these models.
I have adopted many of these models to my workflows and now use them for 8+ hours per day while working on the LEO Ecosystem.
New apps. Existing apps. Old simple python scripts. We're integrating AI into literally every layer of what we do—from greenfield projects built entirely around AI capabilities to retrofitting legacy systems that never imagined these tools would exist. The versatility is stunning.
We have started using AI across the board for everything. There is simply too much opportunity right now. Whether it's automating repetitive analysis, generating first drafts of content, debugging code, or ideating solutions to problems that previously required days of research, AI handles it. The compounding effect is real: each tool you integrate saves time, which gives you capacity to tackle bigger problems, which creates more value. That's the flywheel.
If you ever had an idea to do something, now is the time to get after it. You literally can just build anything you want right now. That startup you've been thinking about? The side project collecting dust in your notes? The internal tool your team desperately needs? The friction that used to stop you—"I don't have time," "I can't code," "I need to hire someone"—is evaporating. AI compresses the gap between idea and execution in ways that weren't possible even two years ago.
This is not just a message for people building apps. It's a message for anyone doing any kind of intellectual work on the planet. Writers, researchers, analysts, strategists, designers, educators—if your work involves thinking and creating, AI is now part of your competitive toolkit. The people who treat it as a collaborator rather than a threat are already pulling ahead. The window to catch up isn't closing; it's just getting more expensive to wait.
What Should I Use?
I was talking with someone IRL about what they should use. They do accounting and bookkeeping work. And here's the thing—accounting isn't some niche field immune to AI. It's actually one of the most obvious domains where AI creates immediate, measurable impact. Think about it: reconciliation, categorization, expense tracking, invoice processing, tax preparation research—these are all tasks that involve pattern recognition and rule application. AI excels at exactly that.
This is a ripe space for an ambitious person to get involved with AI and 10x their workflow. I'm not exaggerating when I say that. You could use Claude or ChatGPT to draft client communications, analyze financial statements for anomalies, automate the tedious parts of tax research, or even build custom tools that flag suspicious transactions. You could use AI to handle the grunt work that currently eats up 60% of your day, freeing you to focus on actual advisory work—the high-value stuff clients actually pay for.
I truly believe you can achieve an order of magnitude improvement in what you do. The accountant who adopts AI early doesn't just work faster; they become capable of serving more clients, taking on more complex cases, or pivoting into advisory services that require human judgment. The one who doesn't? They're competing on speed and price against someone who just automated half their workload. The gap compounds every quarter. The tools exist right now. The only variable is whether you're willing to experiment.
Will AI Replace Us?
No. If you use these tools you will actually understand thsi vastly more than the average person. AI is not going to replace you. Just like the internet, it will enhance you... but only if you let it.
I urge you to get involved in the space to some degree. Don't just use ChatGPT like a google search replacement. Start figuring out how agentic workflows can enhance what you are already doing.
A good example: I used to scan social media on a daily basis looking for the top news about cross-chain DEXes. This is relevant research for me as I continue to work on LeoDex and LeoKit.
I automated this entirely using Claude. Now I have a Claude instance that literally scrapes all the top X posts about cross-chain and then pulls it into a feed. Then it ranks all of that and scores it for me to read. Then it gives me the top 10 scoring items as a daily newsletter at 8AM (local time) for me to review.
This is just one example of a way I saved 20-30 minutes per day. Imagine applying this to 10 things you do every day. There are many small things like this that you do which an agent can do better and improve your life dramatically.