What I Learned About AI in 2025: Part 2 - The Speed Trap
I built the car, but I forgot the brakes. How eight months of building at full speed taught me that the hardest part of the agent era isn't the technology — it's managing yourself.
A casual 'can you look at this?' at a workshop turned into a lesson about using the right model for the right job. Their agent was burning 17x more tokens than necessary — and the fix was surprisingly simple.
I built the car, but I forgot the brakes. How eight months of building at full speed taught me that the hardest part of the agent era isn't the technology — it's managing yourself.
The gap between understanding AI and actually using it. How a summer vacation, a new laptop, and a kids' reading app finally got me on the bike.