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The Real Gold? It's Speed.
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This is the wildest gold rush in human history. And most people are still looking for pickaxes. Last week I watched my neighbor spend six hours coding what I built in twenty minutes.
He's still writing functions line by line while I'm having conversations with my computer in plain English. The gap isn't closing. It's exploding.
You can launch a business before your coffee gets cold. I'm not exaggerating. Take those programmatic SEO directories pulling 20,000 monthly visitors.
Six dollars and a few sentences in Cursor. That's it. What used to require a team of developers, months of planning, and tens of thousands in budget now happens faster than ordering lunch.
But here's what's really happening underneath. The middle is vanishing. Your average developer is getting squeezed out by AI tools that ship faster and cleaner code.
Meanwhile, the elite engineers are making generational wealth building the AI systems everyone else uses. And a new breed of builders is emerging - people who think in products, not code.
The shift is brutal and beautiful. One person with the right tools now outperforms entire departments from five years ago. Microsoft just posted their highest revenue per employee ever.
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That's not efficiency. That's transformation. I can have full conversations with YouTube videos now. My documents talk back to me.
My database answers questions I didn't know I had. This isn't productivity software anymore. This is collaboration with intelligence itself. The speed is intoxicating.
Ideas become prototypes become products become businesses in days, not months. The feedback loops are so tight they're practically real-time.
You think it, you build it, you test it, you scale it, all before traditional companies finish their planning meetings.
This is what gold rush velocity actually feels like. Not everyone rushing to the same mountain with the same tools.
But a complete rewrite of how value gets created. The prospectors who win won't be the ones with the biggest shovels.
They'll be the ones who realized the gold was never in the ground. It was in the speed itself.