AI is not just a technology, and it’s not just a product.
It is a skill.
A skill is something you do, not something you own. You get better at it through deployment: actually using it, in real conditions, and adjusting as you go.
Think of it the way you think about investing.
Everyone has access to the market. Anyone can open a brokerage account today. But outcomes have never been equal, because investing well is a skill, and most people never build it.
AI is going to work the same way. Everyone will have access to the same models, the same tools. What separates people won’t be access. It will be skill.
Right now, not many have that skill.
OpenAI president Greg Brockman recently admitted that “the number of people using agents is 10-20 million. The usage is tiny compared to where we’re going.”
Compare that to the more than 900 million weekly users ChatGPT already has. Agent usage today is somewhere between 1 and 2 percent of that.
The point is that skill adoption follows a curve, and we are still early on it.
The people who build real AI skill now, while most of the world is still fumbling, will compound that advantage for years.
In this episode, I walk through a few developments from the past month that all point to this same conclusion, and share what you actually need to know about AI right now, plus concrete ways to build the skill while it still gives you an edge.
You can find a written version of this lesson below, including full show notes.
