AI moment in time

I asked Grok for ideas on how to build a solopreneur business using AI as my STAFF. So everything that you see from HERE down is from an AI telling me how to use AI to let AI run it all for me (no paid staff):

1. You can use Sora 2 to create Hollywood-level videos in seconds. You can build audiences of millions without a production crew.

2. You can clone your voice with Eleven Labs in under 10 seconds. Layer it on HeyGen avatars. You can create talking head videos without ever filming.

3. You can spin up code agents on Cursor or Claude Code that debug, write tests, and push to GitHub while you're asleep.

4. Record a Loom or Zoom Clips. Drop it into Chat GPT. Get a polished blog post with research, insights, and priorities extracted automatically.

5. Drag-and-drop Zapier workflows. Plug in AI agents. Automate outreach, reporting, research, even legal docs.

6. Drop a 300-page PDF into Perplexity. Get a structured memo in under a minute.

7. You can vibe code a SaaS product from scratch. Launch a landing page and drive traffic to get validation in a weekend instead of spending months in stealth mode wondering if anyone will care.

8. Generate 100 ads with variations with AI. A/B test them in Meta Ads Manager before you spend a dollar. Ship campaigns faster than any agency with a six-figure retainer.

9. Deploy voice agents that call leads, qualify them, update your CRM, and hand you a booked calendar while you're at dinner. No more cold calling, ever.

10. Build entire media pipelines from raw text to cinematic short-form content in Runway and Pika Labs.

11. You can move like a team of ten without hiring a single person. Hit $50K/month with 50%+ margins because you don't need the overhead, the office, the endless meetings.

12. Validate ideas in 48 hours instead of 48 weeks.

13. Query your data warehouse like you are texting a friend. Automate the boring parts. Focus on the fun stuff. Make money while you sleep. Get paid for life.

14. Scrape competitors and generate go-to-market strategies in hours instead of months of expensive consultants.

15. Train a custom GPT on your support docs and resolve 70% of support and trouble tickets without lifting a finger.

16. Start a business while you still have a job. Test it. Grow it. Then decide if you want to make the leap to Entrepreneurship.

OK, this is me again, TomCapone.com. Real Human. Now here is what I am finding to be interesting. VERY interesting. There are around 174K+ K-20 schools across North America serviced by the NADLA.org (North American Distance Learning Association). That is my day job. And starting Q1 2026 we shall be servicing the entire world via the GlobalDLA.org. 

I asked Grok how many of our 174K+ schools across North America have 'AI' in their portfolio. I asked Claude and Gemini and Copilot and Meta AI and others the same question. 

It appears the answer is ALL OF THEM. 

 

I don't know if there will even be traditional 'college' in 10 years. Taking out a loan to get a degree seems to be out of style. And not a very good use of money (bad investment). I don't know if we shall be talking about AI or it shall just be assumed that we all have it, use it, depend on it. Similar to electricity or WiFi - we just expect it to 'be there' ready to serve us. Not every home had electricity - and then they all did. Not every business had a telephone - and then they all did. Same for websites, computers, etc. The 'tipping point' with AI just came much faster than we predicted. 

AI’s power isn’t some secret sauce or true consciousness—it’s mostly extreme scale of compute + data + a very good architecture (transformers) that lets it approximate almost any pattern in human knowledge and language well enough to seem intelligent. The jump from 2020 models to 2025 models isn’t a new fundamental invention; it’s mostly "just" making everything 10–100× bigger and training it better. But that brute-force scaling keeps working far beyond what most experts predicted. That’s the real surprise of AI—and the source of its power.

AND SO... when people ask me where they should go to school and/or what should they study to have a career that will be 'AI' proof, my answer is:

You should go to all of them. Better put - you can access ALL OF THEM. From your home. From anywhere in the world. And you need to think of AI as you would think about having access to electricity or access to the Internet. No matter what you choose to do for a living, AI will be there. Hopefully AI will be working WITH you, and working for you - and not working against you. 

Think more like Luke Skywalker plus R2-D2. A team. That is the future of work, the future of education and even the future of entertainment. And the future is now. 

Right now. I hope that you (human you) will join us in the Global CLOUD Community. Feel free to invite your AI bot to all meetings and calls. I understand AI is very good at taking notes. 

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