Lucas Stoffel

I spent years behind glass in a Midtown office, waiting for a million-dollar dream that was never going to fulfill me. That is the thing AI can't touch. My purpose was never the job. There was a window in Midtown I used to stare out of. Glass tower, free coffee, my name finally floating through rooms I'd spent years trying to get into. And a voice in the back of my head that kept saying: Kid, this is it. Just sit here a few more years and the million-dollar dream is yours. Al

AI is not making humans obsolete. AI is rearranging the meritocracy. The smartest brain in the room is no longer the differentiator. The brain that knows how to fight productively with a model is. The complaint I hear most often about AI is that it is taking jobs. Marketing jobs. Junior analyst jobs. Copywriting jobs. Customer support jobs. Junior coding jobs. The complaint is real. The framing is wrong. A marketing associate told me last month that she was scared AI was comi