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>>LucidL+(OP)
My anxiety about falling behind with AI plummeted after I realized many of these tweets are overblown in this way. I use AI every day, how is everyone getting more spectacular results than me? Turns out: they exaggerate.

Here are several real stories I dug into:

"My brick-and-mortar business wouldn't even exist without AI" --> meant they used Claude to help them search for lawyers in their local area and summarize permits they needed

"I'm now doing the work of 10 product managers" --> actually meant they create draft PRD's. Did not mention firing 10 PMs

"I launched an entire product line this weekend" --> meant they created a website with a sign up, and it shows them a single javascript page, no customers

"I wrote a novel while I made coffee this morning" --> used a ChatGPT agent to make a messy mediocre PDF

>>pizzat+ua
Getting viral on X is the current replacement for selling courses for {daytrading,amazon FBA,crypto}.

The content of the tweets isn't the thing.. bull-posting or invoking Cunningham's Law is. X is the destination for formula posting and some of those blue checkmarks are getting "reach" rev share kickbacks.

>>browni+Sb
Yeah, if you get enough impressions, you get some revenue, so you don't need to sell any courses, just viral content. Which is why some (not ALL) exaggerate as suggested.

>>gianca+1k
It's a bit insane how much reach you need before you'd earn anything impactful, though.

I average 1-2M impressions/month, and have some video clips on X/Twitter that have gotten 100K+ views, and average earnings of around $42/month (over the past year).

I imagine you'd need hundreds of millions of impressions/views on Twitter to earn a living with their current rates.

>>geerli+0o
I'm not as familiar with your content but how often do you post? I have a friend who posts 'meme' type of content (all original) and he makes a decent amount, but he has it all queued up.