AI Just Came for Your Desk Job — and It’s Not Even Sorry: Inside the Supersonic Tsunami Elon Musk Warned About
Pull up a chair. Pour your second (or third) coffee. I’m going to tell you, in plain talk and with receipts, what this “AI tsunami” actually looks like — why it’s real, why it’s scary, and why you don’t have to be the person who gets swept away. Here’s the short version before the long, entertaining, fact-backed ride: AI is moving faster than most of us can rewire our résumés. Money is pouring in like it’s the last call at a casino. A huge chunk of office work is already on the chopping block. But — and this is a big but — there are very practical, actually-doable ways to surf the wave instead of getting dunked. I won’t be melodramatic here. I’ll be blunt. Let’s begin. The Scene: Why everyone’s shouting “tsunami” You remember the last time something that felt huge arrived — like the internet in the 1990s. With AI, the scale is similar, but the speed is wilder. Private investment into generative AI alone hit about $33.9 billion in 2024 , up nearly 19% from 2023. That’s not...