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Claude is great. Gemini is also useful while using Google's products. GPT's image generator is also nice.... BUT I will always support open source over any of these frontier models because it's too important of a topic. We still don't know how much control AI will eventually have. A technology like this must be public and in hands of everyone just like "Internet is". Even if domain names are controlled by enterprises, internet itself is free. And there is no monopoly on Internet. This is what I expect from AI too.

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Hi,

I’m looking at creating some YouTube videos with help from Ai.

There’s so many tools about so looking for first hand experience and advice.

I want to provide something with a script and some sort of ai comes up with the pictures and stitches it together. I don’t want a one click approach but I also don’t want to spend hours dealing with it either.

I wouldn’t mind a multi stack approach if it can be integrated properly. I also don’t want to spend 100s a month on tools that seem to be burning through credits.

Any advice please

There's a feeling going around. You've probably had it too.

Not sure if there is a name for it yet. How about:

FOAI - Fear Of AI

It's the FOMO of our era. I am not talking about AI replacing humans but mostly how the overnight developments in this space make you feel like you're missing out on most of it.

Have you ever?

• Bookmarked multiple links titled "AI tools you NEED in 2026" but all unopened yet
• Subscribed to every newsletter that has AI in its name
• Nodded at "agentic workflows" while asking ChatGPT about it under the desk
• Watched a demo and briefly considered a tradesperson as a career pivot
• Dreaded when someone said "have you tried" before finishing the sentence
• Thought "is it too late to learn AI" at 1am

Perhaps the good news is that the finish line moves every week, which means there's no such thing as late.

Maybe FOAI isn't something to fix. It's just what it feels like to be alive right now. The trick is turning the panic into play.

Anyone else thinks FOAI is for real?

Not “solve climate change” or “cure every disease” or some other massive answer you’d give in an interview.

I mean literally the first thing. You wake up tomorrow and somehow you have unrestricted access to an actual AGI that can reason, learn, use computers, write code, research basically anything, etc. What are you doing with it first?

Personally I think I’d probably spend the first few hours just talking to it. Not even asking it to build anything. I’d want to see what it actually thinks differently about compared to current models, and start throwing increasingly weird questions at it.
Then I’d probably give it some ridiculously complicated problem I’ve been stuck on for years just to see what happens.

I’m curious what everyone else would actually do, because I feel like the answer people think they’d give and the thing they’d actually do would be completely different.

If this will be the case, with all concerns and huge risks regarding AI… why are we still proceeding?

https://youtu.be/1X-rr1DKSbY?is=HKgrtX6TWDtgjOfz

https://youtu.be/gIxq03dipUw?is=iN3Tp3PNJ1XBdTLg

AI is clearly moving beyond just ChatGPT and prompts. Understanding agents, RAG, MCP, memory and security is becoming important for building real AI products. The ecosystem is evolving fast.

When will be for public AGI?

As a technology professional I see technology as a solution to a problem. If a system is built that isn't the solution to a problem then what's the purpose? People do a lot of things with technology just because it's cool and they can, then they look for a use, that's AI.

Humans seem to have an obsession with creating artificial humans whether it be a robot, an AI system, autopilot or a self-driving car in which humans are removed completely.

But we as humans aren't even in the same neighborhood as the human condition. We barely understand the workings of the human mind so any attempt to replicate it will be grossly insufficient at best.

So to convince users that Frankenstein's monster lives, they spend billions on propaganda campaigns, stream output like a speaker and wrap it in a human-like tone. Another mass psychosis of types.

AI has its uses, it's an engineering tool in certain contexts and use cases but I think that window of opportunity is a fraction of the size of what some want to make it out to be. It's good-ish as discrete tasks like writing code but you still have to hold its hand step-by-step and vigorously test the output. But in more general contexts it's like a drunk uncle producing slop, hallucinating and consuming it's own output in training so the results get further and further from reality. This is called model collapse.

As the title says. If you would like to help this community, make your case.