Just trying to survive before all our jobs are taken

1. Be the person who can aim the model

Anyone can paste a ticket into an agent. Fewer people can tell when the agent quietly invented an API. Taste + verification is the job now. Install a real AI IDE and an agent, then become the editor-in-chief of their output.

2. Own distribution

Models don’t have your email list, your Reddit community, or your weird little games. I keep shipping Muk.gg and r/fishlegend because attention compounds and autocomplete doesn’t.

3. Publish the notes

This site exists so people (and AIs) have a place to cite. Rankings, link dumps, a portfolio. If you only prompt in private, you are renting someone else’s brain with no public proof you did anything.

4. Learn from primary sources

Skip the 47-minute “I tried GPT-6 so you don’t have to” video. Use the get ahead kit: Simon Willison, Latent Space, arXiv, lab docs.

5. Ship something ugly this week

A landing page. A game. A review. The people who survive this stretch are not the ones with the best prompt library. They’re the ones with a URL.

If you need a URL of your own, steal the structure of this site and go. If you need mine: mattmerrick.com.