Everyone Will Be a Boss in the Future: Leveraging AI for Side Hustles

The Future of Work: You as the Boss

In the future, everyone will be a boss, and the employees will be AI, real super AI individuals.

To make good use of AI, you first need to learn to let go. Just like being a boss, you can't do everything by yourself. Instead, you need to know how to assign and distribute tasks.

You should manage tasks and their progress well. Know which job should be given to which AI 'employee' and which AI tool to use. Figure out how they can coordinate and divide the work to maximize efficiency.

These are the things we need to think about when using AI. That is, we need to have a boss's mindset. If AI can do a job, don't do it yourself. We should focus on things that AI can't do.

Tasks for Humans in the AI Era

For example, strategic thinking, cooperation, coordination, and management. You also need to recruit new 'employees' (new AI tools) and find better combinations.

Learning to let go is very important. You need to stop doing things that you used to do by yourself. Maybe at the beginning, you'll find that using AI isn't as good as doing it yourself.

For instance, AI may not understand what you mean. The results may not be as good, and the speed may not be as fast. But this is where you need to get used to it and accept the imperfections.

We need to accept that AI is not perfect for now and may make some small mistakes. We can do the follow - up checks and optimize the results.

AI: A Game - Changer for Side Hustles

AI is really an opportunity for ordinary people in this era. In the past, you had to do everything on your own. Hiring an employee cost a lot of money and had high costs.

Now, with the development of Internet infrastructure and platforms, plus the AI 'employees', you can save a huge amount of cost.

Similarly, for companies, it will also save a large amount of cost. Some people may lose their jobs because of this, but I believe new positions and new production models will emerge.

For individuals, this is an opportunity. Build your own AI 'employees' and AI team to develop your own business.

The Challenge of Transformation

This transformation is indeed a huge challenge because most people have never been a boss. Even I have never been a leader or managed employees.

We need to explore how to view a job or a task as a leader or boss. We need to find our own position instead of just doing what an employee does.

If you act like an ordinary employee, you definitely can't compete with AI 'employees'.

Two Roles of AI in Your Work

So, AI has two roles when helping you with work. One is an assistant, and the other is an employee.

As an assistant, AI only does some auxiliary work, and you are still in charge. This is how we can improve efficiency in the workplace, at work, or in side hustles.

This step is relatively easy, and we are quite familiar with it. We can start right away.

The next step is to treat AI as an employee and let it do the work completely. You only need to be responsible for acceptance and coordination.

This is what companies will do in the future, and they definitely will. For example, at first, AI is used to improve the efficiency of customer service and answer questions. Later, AI customer service will directly communicate with customers, and there will be no need for human customer service or only a small number of human customer service staff.

This application scenario is very practical and will definitely be widely used this year.

AI in Self - Media and Side Hustles

So, for individuals doing self - media or side hustles, you should find a way to let AI directly replace a part of your work, not just for simple improvement and assistance.

You can then use the saved time and energy to do more things.

This is a change in mindset, and it's quite challenging.

Daily Reading & Writing by Xiaolu 10/02/2025 [Day 525]