This is all very anecdotal...Take the redpill
This is all very anecdotal. BUT here me out:
If you are spending 1-2 hours a day actually going deep and building things with AI...
Pushing to Github
Working in your terminal or another IDE
Taking your wild ideas and making your own personal Saas
Regularly using cowork, CC, Codex
Like ACTUALLY building things...
I'd say you're more advanced than 99% of the world.
Yes, totally an opinion-driven, not fact checked statement, but lets think about this for a sec.
MOST people work a 9-5. Or more... Unless they are deep diving before 9 and after 5, they're probably not going to far into AI
And if they are, they might be reading about it and staying moderately up to date through twitter or newsletters... MAYBE...
but most people just don't have the time and bandwidth to do all of this.
THIS is why it's easier now than its ever been to become an expert and carve a nice little niche out for yourself in this space.
It doesn't take much other than curiosity and the willingness to go down the rabbit hole with these tools.
Take the redpill.