I worked with Steve Jobs at Apple, where every OS update killed startups. AI founders are ...

You bought the AI tool. Nobody used it. $200/month gone, and now you're more skeptical than ever. That's not a you problem. That's an industry problem. Here's what a former Apple engineer who watche

You bought the AI tool. Nobody used it. $200/month gone, and now you're more skeptical than ever.

That's not a you problem. That's an industry problem.

Here's what a former Apple engineer who watched this same cycle play out with Dropbox and 1Password just confirmed: the big platforms always absorb the generic AI tools first. Microsoft, Google, Salesforce — they're already baking AI into software you're probably already paying for.

That means half the AI tools being pitched to you right now will be irrelevant within 18 months. The vendors know this. Most won't tell you.

But here's the flip side. The tools that survive — and thrive — are the ones solving a specific, painful, industry-specific problem that the big guys can't be bothered to tackle. That's actually good news for you.

Before you spend another dollar, open a blank document and write down your single most repetitive business problem. Not a tech problem. A time, money, or mistake problem. That one thing is where your first AI win lives — and it's almost certainly already solvable with tools under $50/month.

Start there. One problem. One tool. Thirty days.

What's the AI purchase you regret most — and what did they promise you it would do?

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The enterprise system became the business. As we saw with Dropbox and 1Password in the last cycle, offerings from smaller companies that deeply ...