Technology is no longer the bottleneck for our output. The only thing slowing us down now is our own ability to understand what we truly want to create, what we truly want to build, what we truly want to contribute. We are moving from a world of technical limitations to a world of frictionless creation.
Our problems are about to change. Let me show you how the early adopters are already operating at this new reality and how you can as well.
From Passive Chat to Active AI
Phase 1: The Passive Era
For the last three or four years, we've used AI passively. Before we had the internet, we had amazing things, but when AI showed up, we used it like a search engine. Input in, output out. We prompt it for something, it outputs an answer.
AI became our:
- Research companion
- Writing helper
- Sparring partner
But it's all the same pattern: back and forth communication. One human source putting all their thoughts into a prompt, pressing enter, getting a response, maybe copying and pasting it somewhere else. The AI just sits there waiting for us.
Phase 2: The Automation Promise
Then they told us about N8N, Zapier, Make.com - all this automation. "This is the agent era," they said. ""2025 is going to be the agent year.""
I started using N8N to automate AI work. The idea was that instead of AI being a passive companion, it could do stuff on its own.
The progression looked like this:
- Zapier - Connects things and automates workflows
- Make.com - Added visual interface, making operations easier
- N8N - Self-hosted with AI baked in, having agents with tools they can decide how to use
The pattern: Trigger → Something happens → Results
But here's the problem: All of that is just funneling data. Taking data from somewhere, manipulating it to get somewhere else. That's it.
It's nice. It's fantastic. Definitely usable. But this is not a real hybrid workspace. The AI is funneling our data and helping us manipulate it in ways software engineers couldn't before, but it's just funneling data.
This whole N8N approach is not alive. It's not organic. You cannot talk with it. It takes the amazing power of AI and LLMs and puts them inside a script for us.
The New Layer: AI as Your Native Language Interface
Remember the OSI model - the seven layers of internet and computer networks?
- Physical layer - The actual wires
- Data link layer - The electrical signals passing through
- Network layer - Connected computers
- And so on...
- Application layer - Where users interact with machines
Each layer required specialized knowledge. Someone who knows the physical layer language did that work for us. Someone who knows the data link layer did that work. Until finally, someone who knows the application language built an application so we can press buttons and trigger everything else.
We now have a new layer - and this is a huge revolution.
This layer knows ALL the other languages. We don't need to know them. It knows how to produce everything in the other layers. And it also knows our own language.
The AI is a connection. It's a way for the computer to speak our language. We don't need to learn the computer's language or any layer language. We just need to know our own language and the computer can do it themselves.
I call this layer Claude Code (or more broadly, AI CLI tools) - not because it's necessarily going to be called that forever, but it's the best name we have right now. In a few months or years, we'll probably have a proper name for it.
This opens up the opportunity to actually work WITH the AI, not work ON the AI or let the AI work FOR us. We are working together.
AI as Teammate, Not Tool
A teammate is bigger than an employee, bigger than a tool.
In this metaphor:
- Tool = Talking with ChatGPT
- Employee = N8N workflows
- Teammate = Working together with AI (much more powerful)
The Low-Hanging Fruit: Canvas Feature
Every AI model out there - Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT - has a canvas feature. This is something not many people talk about, but it's incredibly powerful.
The canvas is a window that both you and the AI can see and edit almost simultaneously. This is a great way to start exploring the AI as teammate concept.
My Canvas Workflow
I've had a big realization: I no longer want the AI to produce a 100% perfect response. I'm looking to get to 90-95%, then I finish the rest.
I look at the AI as a collaborator that helps me get where I want to get faster, but I do the tweaking and wrapping up to perfect creation. They do their work, I do my work, and we work together.
Here's my process:
- Record myself - Sometimes 15-30 minutes, sometimes longer
- Transcribe it - Many ways to do this (you can build an N8N workflow if you want)
- Give the text to AI - This text IS my prompt, with everything already included
- AI creates a document - Text, website, code, whatever
- Iterate together
For iterations:
- First draft: Deeper model (Gemini Pro, ChatGPT Pro)
- Edits: Lighter model
The magic happens here: I have the canvas open. I highlight text I want to change and write instructions to the AI. Then I continue reading while the AI is editing in the background. I keep highlighting and giving instructions as I read.
During my reading, I'm writing comments, and the AI is already working on those comments. This is fantastic - very fast, highly productive, and very good results.
After this first scan (and I actually read the output because it's meaningful to me), we get to a prototype. Then I can edit directly - I'm not going to ask the AI to remove letters or dots, I'll just delete them. It's faster.
We edit together, and then we're done.
This process is incredibly beneficial. For example, I just built a landing page. This used to take me two weeks, and now it's one hour - to something I can post to the world, something meaningful and valuable that speaks my own taste and language.
I can get to 100% quality. This was very frustrating before - I couldn't get to 100% because the AI wasn't there and I kept waiting. I'm no longer waiting. We're working together and getting to 100% quality together.
Claude Code: Your AI Operating System
Claude Code (and similar CLI tools - Gemini CLI, Cursor, etc.) is basically an operating system now.
Important: Don't think this is just for developers because it says "code" or "CLI" You can use Claude Code to create anything you want.
What You Can Build
- Workflows and automations - You no longer need N8N. Claude Code can create the entire workflow
- Social media posting - Not just drafting, but actual posting
- Research - Claude Code has access to all your files, can create Python scripts, and can search the web. What more do you need?
- Business management
- PDF processing
- Journaling systems
- Custom software for your specific workflow
Anything you can imagine. Anything digitally that you want.
Why Do We Need More Applications?
This is a very important point: Why do we need to pay for software anymore?
I created software I really needed with Claude Code. It took me maybe two days to make a final product. It's very rough on the edges - most people probably wouldn't be able to use it, but it's 100% working for my use case.
I know all the tweaks and problems, but I can work with it. I can change it if I need because I can ask Claude Code to change it.
Why do I need to pay for an application like that anymore? I don't.
This isn't production-ready or something I'd share with the world, but it's software made just for me, for my workflow, for the way I operate.
Think about it: You use computers all the time (your phone is a computer). You use the application layer - the user interface. That's all you need, right?
Now we have another layer. In 50 or 100 years, people won't know the application layer anymore, or the AI will generate a user interface for them so they don't need to interact with it.
My One Night Experiment
I spent $100 on the max plan and spent all night building stuff. I created everything I needed or wanted to create for a very long time, and it took me one night with Claude Code.
The New Problem
That whole experience led me to a realization: Everything I wanted to build, everything meaningful to me, every workflow I struggled with for years - I can now create very, very fast with very good quality.
Because now we're talking with the computer, we're working together. It's doing stuff on my computer and I can see everything it's doing, edit everything, talk to it.
I can build whatever I want. That's the problem.
Now all my desires are already fulfilled. What do I want next? I created the software I thought I was stuck with for such a long time. What am I going to do next?
My new problem is: I need to come up with more stuff I would like to do.
My new problem is NOT:
- ❌ I cannot make it
- ❌ I don't have enough time
- ❌ I don't have enough brain capacity
My new problem is:
- ✅ I don't have enough stuff I want
- ✅ I need to come up with more stuff - deeper stuff, bigger stuff
There's research showing that one prompt with Opus can accomplish 2.5 to 4.5 hours of software engineering work already. In a few months, it'll be even more - nine hours of software engineering work.
We need to come up with bigger desires, deeper stuff we want to create.
Full Circle: Back to the Physical World
This brought me back to coaching. Coaching can help me understand what I want to do.
That's weird, right? It's a full circle bringing me back to the physical world, back to physical reality, because the digital reality became pretty much solved.
Now I have my physical body that I need to reconnect to and dig deeper into what I want to build and what I want to create.
Maybe that's too philosophical for some, but this is what I experienced.
I created a game last few days that I really wanted to build 10 years ago but couldn't. I started but couldn't finish. I recreated it and made it even better - it looks gorgeous. Now I have this game that I worked on, a dream I had 10 years ago that I had to revisit.
I need more. More meaningful ideas, more meaningful stuff I want to do.
I'm no longer stuck because my computer isn't fast enough. My computer is super fast now.
I'm stuck because I'm not sure what will be meaningful for me. How do I want to contribute?
This is exactly what coaching helps you do - what coaching helps you know.
The Calling for Coaches
For my coaching viewers who know I'm a coach with many peers in the profession: This might be the calling for our profession in today's era.
Coming back to the physical world, because the digital world is pretty much solved at this point (or will be in a few years).
As humans, we can come back to physical reality.
You can make anything you want. All that's left is figuring out what you want to do.
This is a Renaissance
This is a time of thriving. We've had pretty rough years - the last five years in the world have been difficult, and we'll probably have a few more difficult years ahead.
But we are going through a renaissance. Something beautiful.
Reconnect with yourself. Understand what deeply you want to create and do it with the new software we have.
I cannot wait to see what you're going to build - for you, for your close ones, for the world, for all of us.
Your Computer is Already AGI (or GDI)
Your computer has basically already turned into something like an AGI. Maybe not AGI, but definitely a General Digital Intelligence (GDI) - very much genius, very much automatic.
Use it. Really use it.
Even if you're not technical. Even if you're afraid of the word "code" in Claude Code or the framework of CLI tools. You can use these AI models to ask them how to install it, how to make it work. They will explain to you.
Don't worry.
This isn't the future. This is the present. This is happening now.
Your computer is already an AI operating system. This is today.
I'm not sure what's going to happen in a few months - I have no idea. But I know that NOW, our computers can understand our own native language.
And this is fantastic.
The Question I Leave You With
What's your life contribution going to look like?
Now you have genius, automatic, fast, fluent workforce with you.
- What would you do now?
- What would you create now?
- What would you contribute now?
Thank you very much for watching. I hope you got something from this.