It’s Okay to Wait and See

Is your head spinning from all the AI news? ChatGPT Apps. Claude Cowork. Clawd Bot. Moltbot. It feels impossible to keep up, because it is impossible to keep up. Anxiety rises. What, you haven't moved your entire business operations to Claude Code yet? Oh wait, that's so last week. What, you haven't handed over the reins to all your accounts to Clawdbot yet?

The 24-hour news cycle and social media have convinced us that we have to be ready with a deep take on everything, so we stay glued to Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit and co. And then we're either paralyzed by the sheer overwhelm (where do we even start?) or we're effectively paralyzed by darting from one shiny object to the next.

The good news is: Unless your actual job, the one you're being paid real money for, involves you having up-to-the-minute fresh information about and hot takes on everything related to AI, you can slow down. In engineering terms: Filter out the high-frequency noise. If something is truly important, it'll stick around for more than a couple of news cycles and you just saved yourself a lot of stress.

Now that's not to say you should ignore everything entirely. Big and important things are happening. But it takes time for the dust to settle, good practices to emerge and good uses to be identified. Allow yourself to set your cadence a bit slower. The frequency with which you need to implement new approaches, adopt new tools, or throw out everything you know and start from scratch is much lower than the breathless reporting on the internet would have you believe.

The future is unfolding, but at a slow, steady pace that will endure as the hype exhausts itself.