Hello World. Welcome.
A few months back I awoke from “going all in” on AI and realized I had made 22 sites and although I learned a fair bit, it was a slippery slope from asking a chat “can you make me a website” to having 22 sites.
22 sites is a LOT. I had fancy dashboards and tracking and charts that updated - the whole shebang. What I didn’t have was a purpose to continue after making the 22nd. I can go from an 8 dollar domain name to a site in an afternoon but what I realized is that all 22 were mostly crap.
I may have gotten a little frustrated and trigger happy and deleted them all, but I think that’s the right move because one of the things I realized is I can ask AI to write about - how to make a website with AI.
Oh, it can bang out article after article all day long. I have another site as a test bed of this theory and last I looked it’s over 17000 pages of crap. I’m leaving the crap because like this site - which I will get to in a minute - It’s a test and the test I am beginning her is to ask the question:
IS AI WORTHLESS?
I don’t know. But I am going to find out and here’s how:
AI researches for me. I had it pick the thing that I know nothing about. It picked The Chef's Knife. What I know about the chef’s knife is… absolutely nothing.
for every new post I have to read and research and understand freaking knives until AI finds me five bucks. The five bucks could come from somebody buying a knife and I get a small commission, it could somebody that buys me a coffee or a newsletter subscription, whatever.
The goal is to make five bucks. This is where I am right now.
When I finally make the five bucks, I stop and have Hermes write me another research paper on something else and this time…. I have to make ten bucks.
The goal answer the question: Is AI WORTHLESS? I think it might be if you just trust what it says but if you prompt well and tell it not to make shit up, and to cite the stuff, it comes back with pretty good stuff
So there we have it. I write and research about knives until I find five bucks.
OH, I almost forgot - the numbers! Every day I open my computer to see if I made any money. If I do, I update my dashboard you see above. It’s always on the top and it shows at the time of writing this, I am about $700 underwater, but I have made a few dollars since I started messing around with AI and tokens and all that good stuff.
The dream is to find $100/day with AI. We shall see.
Watch this space for more soon.
Best, Jim