Is it Right to use AI?

Yes!

You can make the argument that AI will end the world, that it wastes natural resources and that it further drives the gap between the have’s and have not’s. But I’d like to just draw you back 26 years to the turn of the millennium.

During the late 90’s, the world saw an explosion in hype about the future of being online and equated it to certain death if a business didn’t have a website or some kind of email functionality. Billions were invested and by early 2000 the market peaked and imploded dramatically. Money was lost, the big players who over extended themselves died and the market picked up the pieces. Nowadays I couldn’t imagine a life without the internet. My kids just accept that it exists, no questions. Remember VHS? 3.5 inch or even 8 inch floppies? All gone, just a millennial memory that will only be remembered in Wikipedia.

Now fast forward to 2008. While wasting my life on somethingawful.com, RIP Lowtax, there were rumors about blockchain being used for what we know today as FINTech. Online banking that would render modern banking obsolete. Then around mid-2009 Satori released what is probably the most well known form of currency in the world today – Bitcoin. Cue the laughter from all those terminally online. Hell even I had 20 at one point, I traded them for a 6-pack and a supreme pizza. Do I regret that? I guess, but I would’ve lost them anyway due to constantly changing hardware over the years, and all my old Seagate HDD’s are long gone so whatever.

And now today we have another explosion in businesses desperately attempting to convince users to accept that their LLM wrapped CRM is soooo much better than their competitors. Really though they’re all the same. I’m yet to meet an Agentic AI that didn’t do anything different than its competitors. And when the bubble pops yet again and we’re thrust into another “once-in-a-lifetime” event, there will be those that know how to use AI, and those that don’t. And like the copy shop that’s dying a slow death on a mostly boarded up strip mall, those that did use AI properly will go onto great things.

So it doesn’t really matter if you, your neighbor, your coworker or boss use AI. The fact is that it’s here and it will continue to be here probably long after we as humanity cook ourselves in an increasingly hotter world. We, for the most part, just have to go with the flow and accept the status quo. Now you can totally say no, buy a block of land in the country and start a homestead.

Just a note – I would absolutely LOVE to do that.

But the reality is we need to be there for our family, friends and community. And sometimes that just means figuring out how to stay ahead and ride the wave. Yes it’ll crash on the beach and our lives will again be in ruin, but somehow, we’re just gonna keep on going and doing what we can to survive. So find whatever it is that makes you happy, hyperfocus in on that, and just try to live your life the best you can.

C-Lord

02/16/26