Looks Useful, Isn’t, Drives Me Nuts — and I Use It Anyway.

At a bookstore in Itami Airport, AI recommended a book to me, so I bought it and read it.

Quick note for any American readers, because otherwise you’ll have no clue what this book even is. It’s a Japanese business book titled — roughly — ‘People Finished by AI / People Who Transform with AI,’ by Kenta Nakahira, put out by Diamond, one of Japan’s big business publishers. The cover practically shouts at you: ‘Is AI cheating? Can’t you trust it?’ — ‘The earnest, hard-working types are the first ones finished off. It’s the confident ones who really get cornered.’ The pitch: an entrepreneur who’s changed the way 1,000-plus companies and 3,000-plus people work will teach you — no IT knowledge required — how to make yourself evolve, explosively. That kind of book.

My verdict? I could see where every page was headed. Too simple. Done in no time.

AI Beggars.

These days it feels like every other business is being launched on the back of AI hype.

It gets things wrong without blinking.
It lies without blinking.
It fakes expertise as easily as breathing.

And no — I’m not describing that hopeless guy at your office, the one working so hard to not look hopeless. I’m talking about that headache of a tool we call AI.

In construction too, the con artists wielding these AI scam tools are multiplying.

Here’s the size of it. Today’s AI, at its absolute best — if IT were a Super Nintendo, this is us upgrading to a PS5. A search tool that runs a Yahoo search a hundred times faster. That’s the whole story.

And when I looked into it, apparently about 80% of this very book was written by AI. And this is the best it could manage.

A book written by AI,
recommended to me by AI,
and here I am tearing AI apart.

Well — this is exactly how the human race keeps turning into idiots who are dead sure they’re geniuses.

…and now here I am, asking AI whether I should write a blog post making that very point. (lol)

A fool and a blade — it all comes down to how you use them.
Guess AI’s no different…

6/30
Backfilled the foundation.
It was just me and a former Evo carpenter, so — at 64 — it about finished me.
The day physical AI shows up to lend a hand is still a good 50 years off.

7/1
Scaffolding went up.
Doing it myself never even crossed my mind — I outsourced it. Pros are pros. Up in a flash, clean and efficient.
An unmanned site where physical AI puts up the scaffolding? 50 years away.

The labor shortage on construction sites — that’s the real, right-now story.

To everyone over at the government offices, the banks, the insurance and securities firms, the accountants, the real estate agencies — all of you whose entire job is reading documents and explaining them:
Drop the cheap pride and get over here, fast.
I’ll even teach you, if you like.

Roofing parts — finished machining too.
The day physical AI makes these in an unmanned factory? A hundred years off.