Your AI expertise is probably just good prompting. And you know it.
I've seen people call themselves AI engineers because they can write a decent prompt.
AI automation experts because they connected 3 tools on n8n.
And AI founders because they wrapped an API around a landing page.
Let's be honest for a second.
There is nothing wrong with using these tools. I use them too.
The problem starts when you confuse using a tool with understanding what you're doing.
You can build a workflow that works perfectly in your demo and completely falls apart when a real customer throws something unexpected at it.
You can ship a chatbot in a weekend.
But can you explain why it failed?
Can you control what it costs?
Can you make it reliable enough that someone trusts it with their business?
That's where the actual work begins.
And no, I'm not saying everyone needs to train their own models or understand every mathematical detail behind an LLM.
I'm saying stop selling yourself as an expert in something you've barely stress-tested.
The AI space doesn't have a shortage of people who can build a demo.
It has a shortage of people who can build something that still works on Monday morning, when the customer is paying for it.
Don't confuse the speed of building with the difficulty of building something that matters.
A working demo proves you can build something. It doesn't prove you can build a business around it.
And the market will eventually make that distinction for you.
Agree or disagree?
