AI Anxiety Is Understandable
A lot of people are uneasy about AI. Some are afraid it will replace them. Others worry that using it means helping replace someone else.
I understand both fears. A few years ago, I worried that AI might eliminate my own business, a digital agency that builds and manages applications for clients. At the same time, I was fascinated by how it worked. I still have both feelings, fear and excitement, but my experience over the past year has changed what I am afraid of.
What I have seen is not work disappearing. I have seen the quality of work go up.
AI has made it possible for a small team to deliver products that used to require budgets and teams far beyond our reach. I used to look at something like Google Maps and think, “If only someone paid us millions of dollars, we could build something that polished.” Now, with AI handling more of the execution, that kind of ambition is no longer absurd. Clients are beginning to realize this too. Custom software they could not have imagined owning can now be built with the kind of polish they have come to expect from companies like Google.
So if you are worried that using AI will make you less valuable, I think the opposite is more likely. If you learn to use AI well, you will probably become busier. As the saying goes, if you want something done, ask a busy person. AI makes capable people more capable. Your spreadsheet will not only have more intelligent analysis, more detail, and better charts; because you have time left to design it, it can look beautiful too. It can look like a research report from McKinsey.
The work does not disappear. It gets better.
Hands-On Coaching
But first, AI has to stop feeling mysterious and threatening. That is where I can help.
I offer private, hands-on AI coaching for people who want AI to finally click. We sit together, side by side. You stay at the keyboard. We use your real work, your real files, your real questions, and your real problems. I guide you through what to ask, how to ask it, how to judge the answer, what is safe or risky, and how to keep going when the AI gets stuck or gets something wrong.
This is not a lecture, a webinar, or a generic list of prompts. You do not learn by watching me perform. You learn by doing it yourself, with me next to you, until the fear turns into curiosity.
Real Examples
Here is a small sample of what I have demonstrated for clients.
One client was highly skeptical of AI, but he loved smart home technology. There happened to be an internet-connected air conditioner in the room, so I pointed to it and said, “Let’s write an app that can control it.” We opened OpenAI’s Codex and asked it to scan the home network. It found the air conditioner. We asked what commands the unit supported. It returned a list of things we could control. Then we had Codex write a small app for those controls. Finally, we asked it to turn the AC on, and the air conditioner behind us came to life. My client was completely sold, not because I explained AI to him, but because he experienced himself making something real.
Another client came to me because he wanted me to build a website for him. After hearing what he needed, I told him he could probably build it himself with AI. He was not ready to believe that, so I had him take out his laptop. I walked him through opening an account with Amazon’s cloud service, then helped him tell an AI agent to set up a web server. It installed the database and the framework. Before long, the website was running. We pointed a domain name to it, and he had the site he originally wanted to hire me to build. He went home excited and kept adding more to it.
With a photography enthusiast, I demonstrated how he could create a plugin for Adobe Lightroom that exported photos in the exact format he wanted for Instagram Stories, branded for him, with additional information such as date, time, aperture, and shutter speed. The point was not that he needed to become a professional programmer. The point was that a small personal tool, made exactly for his own workflow, was suddenly within reach.
I have also helped people clean up bank and credit card export files, normalize the data, and turn it into useful bookkeeping spreadsheets. I have shown people how to troubleshoot their own computers with OpenAI’s Codex. The list keeps growing because every person brings a different kind of work, a different kind of anxiety, and a different moment where AI suddenly becomes practical.
Software Made for You
We now live in an era where software does not always have to be shared with thousands of other people just to justify the cost of building it. You can have tools made for your own life, your own business, your own habits, and your own taste. You can fly private. Once you experience that, it is hard to go back to flying commercial.
How We Can Work Together
Part of my incentive for offering this service is that I want to understand how AI can be used across different industries and professions. In that sense, this is also a research project for me. I am interested in the real edge cases: the messy workflows, the old habits, the weird files, the half-manual processes, the things people have tolerated for years because they assumed there was no practical alternative.
Depending on what you need, we can start with a two-hour breakthrough session to help you overcome AI anxiety and leave inspired. We can do a half-day intensive where we use AI on your actual work. Or we can spend a full day going deeper into how AI works, what it is good at, what it is bad at, and how to avoid wasting time on problems it is not meant to solve.
The goal is not to turn you into an “AI person.” The goal is to help you become more fully yourself at work: more capable, more curious, more confident, and more willing to take on the things you used to avoid.