@EXM7777: for a few years, playing with AI was a fair game anyone could get near unlimited access to frontier compute for as litt…
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AI access is becoming restricted as frontier models become strategic assets, but the author argues current models are already sufficient for making money, so users should focus on building skills rather than waiting for better models.
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for a few years, playing with AI was a fair game
anyone could get near unlimited access to frontier compute for as little as $200 a month
that era is closing
this week OpenAI previewed its strongest model and locked it to about 20 government-vetted partners
last month the US government ordered Anthropic to pull Fable 5 offline entirely
models aren’t software anymore… they’re strategic assets, and access is becoming a permission
so yeah, vast majority of people are about to be pinned at the Opus level, watching the frontier from a distance
but listen… it doesn’t matter
there is no money-making task today that current models can’t already do
strip it all back and we use AI for one thing, to make money: in your job, in your business, whatever you’re building
from that angle, a model that’s 10 or 20% sharper changes almost nothing
i know people still copy pasting prompts into the claude web app and turning that thin edge into millions
i could run my entire operation on Opus 4.5 - the newer stuff just lets me move faster and delegate more
agentic capability is already here & cheap models run agents fine
so stop waiting on a new model to change your life
build the money-making skills, then point them at the simplest AI setup that runs on almost anything
it was never more complicated than that
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