Zaid

I mean, look, longtime listeners know I'm an optimistic person.

And when you look back at every major technological shift in history, it's created some anxiety about jobs, but the new tech has always led to new industries and new opportunities and overall economic growth.

I think the same thing will happen with AI.

Now, I'm not gonna lie, it does feel like things are moving really, really fast.

I feel like every week there's a new tool coming out of OpenAI and Anthropic that's destroying industries.

But I also think that companies tend to move pretty slowly, especially large companies.

In fact, according to the consulting firm Gartner,

Over 40% of businesses AI agent projects will be canceled by the end of 2027 because of unclear business value or inadequate risk controls and escalating costs.

And let's talk about the cost part real quick because not enough people are talking about it.

So running these AI agents is not cheap.

These AI agent tools don't just have like a monthly flat fee cost.

It's not like signing up for ChatGPT Pro.

These agents consume token.

And the more complex the task, the more tokens are used.

And that compute bill adds up pretty fast.

That's the biggest thing that I've learned from using these tools myself.

I run out of tokens pretty fast.

So in the near future, it still might be cheaper having a human do a task compared to an AI agent.

But look, there's no doubt that the cost of computing is going lower, and there's no doubt that AI is going to change the way that we work.

But I'm just not ready to panic over it just yet.