What keeps me up at night..

Something keeps me up at night about all of this.

Not the speed of AI. I've been in ad tech long enough to know that every technology cycle feels like it's moving too fast while you're inside it. Banners felt like that. Mobile felt like that. Programmatic felt like that. You adjust. You learn. You catch up.

What actually keeps me up is the gap between what AI makes possible and what most people have time to figure out on their own.

I started vibe coding because I wanted to understand how these tools actually worked — not from a course or a tutorial, but from building something real with them. I picked a project that didn't exist yet and started asking the AI to help me build it. Most of what it gave me early on was garbage. Beautiful garbage that looked impressive on the surface and fell apart the second I tried to deploy it.

But in the process of fixing what it broke, I started learning things I never would have picked up from documentation. How context windows degrade. How models pattern-match confidence even when they're wrong. How the dopamine hit of a working prototype can trick you into thinking you're further along than you are.

That last part is the one that worries me.

I use AI for almost everything now — brainstorming, coding, building automations. But I've caught myself more than once letting it do the thinking I should have done myself. Not because I'm lazy. Because the output looked right, and checking felt like friction.

The problem is, every time I skipped the check, I lost a little bit of the understanding that would have come from doing it the hard way. And understanding is the only thing that compounds. The tool doesn't compound. Your relationship with the tool does.

I built this platform because I kept looking for a place where builders could learn without getting fed into an engagement algorithm. I never found it. Every platform I tried was optimized for attention, not understanding. The content that rose to the top wasn't the most useful — it was the most emotionally triggering.

I don't have all of this figured out. I'm still building. Still learning what works and what doesn't. Still catching myself reaching for the shortcut when I should be sitting with the problem longer.

That's honestly what keeps me up. Not whether AI is good or bad. Whether I'm being honest with myself about how I'm using it.