Written by: JiaYi

AI is experiencing explosive traffic on X, and my X sends me a new type of content every day—someone posts a screenshot of an AI tool configuration with the caption "I increased my efficiency by 10 times using this system." The comments section immediately fills with a bunch of "installed," "so powerful," "if you don't learn, you'll be eliminated."

Some people also share their AI workflows, telling you that if you copy their method, you could earn tens of thousands per month.

So what? Once you install it, you are still you.

For someone who doesn't know how to trade, AI effectively enhances your money-losing efficiency.

Your problem has never been about lacking a tool.

I don't deny that AI is the biggest variable of this era. But I want to state a few facts that people are not very willing to hear.

1. 80% of the AI content on X is essentially panic marketing

"If you don't use AI, you are done"—this phrase itself is a harvesting tactic.

Create anxiety → Provide the antidote → Gain traffic.

This is a very mature monetization chain.

If you observe closely, you will find that those who loudly proclaim "AI revolution" are not selling AI capabilities, but your panic. What they need most is not for you to truly learn AI, but for you to remain anxious, continually focus on them, and keep sharing their content.

This is the same logic as when the crypto community shouted "if you don't get on board, it's too late," just with a different disguise.

Recently, an AI post on X titled "Something Big Is Happening" received 70 million exposures. However, this post deliberately omitted the critical context, retaining only the parts that could trigger the most panic.

Panic sells attention, not truth.

2. Copying someone else's AI strategy with one click is the dumbest way to learn

Customizing AI is fundamentally a matter of individual cognition.

Recently, a 50K star Claude Code configuration repository became popular. Many people shared it saying "hurry and install." I studied it carefully—it is a configuration designed for professional programmers: TDD Test-Driven Development, Code Review Agents, Security Scanned, with 17 specialized sub-Agents. Very impressive.

But it is designed for people who write code. For instance, if I, someone in marketing, installed this system, it would severely impact the operation of my smart Skill.

Each person has different work scenarios, pain points, and ways of thinking. Someone else's AI configuration is the result of many pitfalls they have encountered before being tailored for themselves. You are not copying their ability but a pile of files that you cannot use.

Ironically, Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code, has stated that his configuration is actually "surprisingly vanilla"—the factory settings are sufficient and do not require much customization. However, such remarks are not stimulating enough, so no one shares them.

3. The biggest trap of AI: it’s not "you don't know how to use it," but "you use everything"

I have seen people ask AI to help arrange what to do today, the priority of each task, and the time allocation for each task. This shocked me.

Allocating one’s time and energy is a person’s most core ability. What to do, what to do first, what is worth investing in, what should be given up—these judgments are backed by your understanding of yourself, clarity of goals, and perception of opportunity cost.

This is not a decision that AI can make for you.

Because AI does not know you didn’t sleep well last night and you are not in good shape today, it does not know you have intuitive confidence in a certain project, nor does it understand that you need to prioritize a relationship with a certain partner that has become subtle recently.

Leaving these decisions to AI is like letting someone who has known you for five minutes plan your life.

AI can enhance your thinking, or it can replace your thinking. Essentially, this is my judgment on whether AI or humans serve as fuel. After all, living brain cells can run operational AI now.

4. Data reveals a cruel truth

Most companies that have implemented AI have not seen any improvement in productivity. This is not just my statement.

Fortune reported in February this year that thousands of CEOs admitted that AI has had no actual impact on employment and productivity.

Goldman Sachs's latest research indicates that there is no significant correlation between AI and productivity.

Tom's Hardware referenced a survey of 6,000 executives: more than 80% of companies reported that AI did not bring productivity improvements.

Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu directly stated: AI is not improving productivity.

Harvard Business Review's article from February this year states more bluntly: "AI Doesn't Reduce Work — It Intensifies It" (AI does not reduce work; it intensifies it.)

Research from UC Berkeley also warns: The effects of AI in the workplace are exactly the opposite of expectations—employees do indeed become more productive, but the workload also skyrockets, ultimately leading to burnout.

5. What you should be truly anxious about is not "I haven't learned to use AI yet"

But rather, "I can no longer think for myself."

The ability to think independently is the most scarce asset in this era.

AI can help you write 80-point content, but the leap from 80 to 100 can only be accomplished by the human brain. AI can assist you in gathering information, but judging which information is important and how to combine it into unique insights is a human task.

Research shows that in the SAT writing test, the group using AI assistance had the lowest brain activity, and their content was evaluated as "lacking originality and warmth." Excessive reliance on AI, especially among young people, can negatively impact brain development.

While you train AI, you are also causing your brain to deteriorate.

This is not science fiction. This is a sad reality that is happening.

6. The correct attitude

Embrace change, learn to elevate your cognition, and stay alert.

Know what tasks AI does better than you—repetitive work, data organization, format conversion, first draft generation. There’s no problem handing these over to AI.

Be aware of the tasks that you do better than AI—strategic judgment, relationship maintenance, creative intuition, value trade-offs, time management. These abilities require your repeated practice, not to be outsourced to a model.

Not every problem needs an AI solution. Sometimes turning off all tools and thinking quietly for ten minutes is more effective than opening ten AI windows.

Don’t let "AI anxiety" become your new shackles. Those who peddle AI panic on X profit from your anxiety. Every time you share "not learning AI means being done for," you are helping them work for free.

The true winner of this wave of AI is not the one who uses AI the most, but the one who knows when not to use AI.

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