The 'messy middle' of AI: most people quit before reaching great outputs
Getting great outputs from AI is like learning tennis — when you first start, you're bad at it, and you almost don't want to show up because you feel incompetent. But you go through the messy middle, you get better and better, and eventually it becomes a lot of fun and the outputs are really good. The truth is 99% of people are not putting in the work to get to those great outputs. That's the arbitrage — for people who actually invest time to optimize and get it to a place where it's high quality, the returns are enormous.
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