Post by Eileen Soh

I deleted Facebook and Instagram about ten years ago because I was miserable watching my friends and their perfect holidays. This month I wanted to quit LinkedIn too, because everywhere I looked people were doing extraordinary things with AI while I was just using it to copyedit my articles. Take John Hu. He dropped out of a Stanford MBA and vibecoded an AI tool called Stanley in fourteen days, which means he never wrote a line of code and just described what he wanted in plain English while the AI built it for him. Stanley plugs into your LinkedIn, reads your recent posts, tells you which did best and worst, and offers to write next week's for you. It reportedly crossed a million dollars in annual revenue within about six weeks. That was just the start. When OpenClaw came out, an AI you leave running on your computer to finish tasks on its own, I read about people who let their machines work all night while they slept and woke up to the job done, some of them running three computers side by side so each could chew through a different project at once. The most I do is set my AI going and make a cup of tea, and it is done by the time I am back, so I felt like I was not squeezing enough out of the thing. Then the certificates started arriving. I read that SANS Institute was offering a whole new range of “AI-Assisted” training at half price, and being a Singaporean who cannot walk past a good deal, I felt my resolve wobble even though I had temporarily sworn off more courses. I suffered the AI FOMO, until I realised these three things. [Click to read more.] #Singapore #CareerAdvice #PersonalBranding #Marketing #Sales #Influencer