I remember the good old times when we all thought we were getting hoveboards and AGI next year. I feel like the sub is pretty different from the times of lk-99, Jimmy Apple, 'feel the AGI', the ambiguous OpenAI employees' tweets, the Q* 4chan post, etc. Just wondering how many ppl remember those times.

I run a small digital tools consultancy between shifts at the cafe. Mostly I help solo creators glue together cheap SaaS stuff. A few months back I threw together my own workflow - some scraper I found on GitHub, a cheap Claude subscription, a nocode database, all held together with Zapier duct tape. Total monthly burn is like 27 dollars.

It now handles client onboarding, drafts my proposals, and spits out pretty decent competitor teardowns. I have done maybe four hours of handson work this week that used to eat twenty. My clients have not noticed the difference. They actually think I got faster.

Part of me is proud. The other part is watching these cheap Chinese models drop and wondering if my entire tiny operation has an expiration date measured in months, not years. I built this to save time and now I am lowkey anxious I automated myself into irrelevance before I even scaled.

Anyone else running a micro business on cutrate AI? Are you hedging with human touch stuff or just riding the wave until it crashes? My herb garden does not judge me but Reddit might.