This picture divides most people in the current AI circle into two categories:

One is "saving money to buy Tokens," and the other is "designing systems that make you willingly burn Tokens."
Clock in at 9 am every day,
Get a little over ten thousand at the end of the month,
Then grit your teeth to spend a few hundred on APIs, buy a few courses,
Thinking you are "at the forefront of the times."
But the real big winners are people like those in the picture:
They’re not in a rush to write prompts themselves.
They are doing a business of "getting hundreds of thousands of people to write prompts."
Every traffic peak helps them burn inventory, validate models, and amplify profits.
In the AI wave, the most dangerous thing is not "falling behind,"
But believing you are "learning" all along,
When in fact, you are just being harvested by a carefully designed anxiety funnel.
Don’t just busy yourself being the person who saves money to buy Tokens.
Think about this:
Can you, even just once, create a small system that makes others willing to burn Tokens for you?
—If you’ve read this far, it means you already possess the first kind of scarce ability:
Seeing through narratives and starting to think in reverse.