How to Prepare for What's Coming With AI

50% of office jobs are going to disappear within 5 years.

And I’m not the one saying it. Dario Amodei says it, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the most important AI companies in the world. And a lot of people inside the industry think he’s being conservative with that number.

I lived this firsthand. Three months ago I quit a job I’d had for 4 years, making $7,000 a month. In Colombia. A salary a lot of people would dream of. And I still quit.

Why? Because I was becoming obsolete. Today I want to tell you what’s actually happening, and what you can do, this week, so you don’t get left behind.

Quick intro for anyone who doesn’t know me. My name is Sergio Ruiz, also known as Serudda with two D’s, here on YouTube and everywhere else. Welcome to my channel, where we talk about the tech industry and a bit about life.

I’ve been in tech for more than 15 years. Coding, designing products, building side projects. I’ve watched technologies come and go. I’ve watched frameworks that were supposed to “change everything” and lasted 6 months.

But what’s happening right now with AI is different. This isn’t a new framework. This isn’t a trend. This is a before and after.

And I’ll be honest with you: I was skeptical too. After 15 years of coding, my ego kicked in hard. It told me: “No way. I’m not letting a machine replace what took me years to learn. I’m not becoming obsolete.”

But reality hit me. I was working at Eden, a company I loved, but my whole world revolved around someone else’s dream. My thoughts, my time, my energy, all of it went into that product. And meanwhile, I was neglecting the thing that mattered most: my own dreams, my own growth, my own future.

I’d forgotten I was building someone else’s dream while mine collected dust in a drawer. So I made the hardest decision. I quit. And I decided to buy myself time.

I make a lot less money now, but I have time. The most valuable resource a human has, in the best era in history to grow.

Let me give you some context on what’s happening out there, because most people don’t know. I recently read an article by Matt Shumer, an entrepreneur who’s spent 6 years building AI startups. And he said something that stuck with me: “Tech workers aren’t predicting the future. We’re warning you about what already happened to us.”

Matt says he’s no longer necessary for the technical work at his company. Literally. He describes what he wants to build to the AI, in plain language, walks away from his computer for 4 hours, and when he comes back… the task is done. Finished. Better than he would’ve done it himself. No corrections needed.

And here’s the crazy part: the AI opens the app on its own, tests it, clicks around like a real user would, and if it doesn’t like something, it fixes it itself. Only when it’s happy with the result does it tell you: “Done, try it.”

There’s a lot in that article I don’t agree with, but something is happening. This stopped being science fiction.

But there’s something even bigger. OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT, confirmed in their official documentation that GPT-5.3 Codex, their latest model, was instrumental in building itself. The team used early versions of the model to debug its own training, manage its own deployment, and diagnose its own errors.

Hear that again: the AI helped build itself. And Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, says AI is already writing “a huge chunk of the code” inside his company. And that we’re only 1 or 2 years away from AI autonomously building the next generation of AI.

Each generation smarter than the last. Each generation building the next one faster. Researchers call this an intelligence explosion. And the people building it think it’s already started.

To give you a sense of how fast this is moving, look at this timeline:

• In 2022, AI couldn’t do multiplication right. It would tell you, with total confidence, that 7 times 8 was 54.
• In 2023, it passed the US bar exam.
• In 2024, it was writing working software and explaining grad-level science.
• By late 2025, the world’s best engineers were already handing off most of their code to AI.
• And now, in 2026, AI completes tasks that would take a human expert 5 hours. Alone. No help.

And this is doubling every 4 to 7 months. Projections say that by next year it’ll be able to work independently for days at a time. In two years, for weeks. In three, entire projects that would take months today.

Amodei says that by 2026 or 2027, we’ll have AI that’s “substantially smarter than almost all humans at almost all tasks.”

Think about that for a second: if AI is smarter than most PhDs, do you really think it can’t do your office job?

So who does this affect? Everyone. Law, finance, software engineering, medical analysis, writers, customer service, content creators.

And the picture is clear: if your job depends on a screen, if what you do is read, write, analyze, and make decisions through a keyboard, big chunks of that job are at risk.

Now. Not in 10 years. Now.

And here’s what frustrates me the most. I have programmer friends who use Claude to write their pull requests for them. That’s it. That’s all they do with the most powerful tool that’s ever existed in human history. Write a PR.

And I think: man, if you knew everything Claude could do beyond writing you a PR, you wouldn’t even be at that office right now.

But most people keep saying: “No, I tried AI and it wasn’t that good.” When did you try it? 2023? 2024? In AI time, that’s prehistoric.

Today’s models are unrecognizable compared to what they were just six months ago. Do you really think the version you tried is the final one? That can’t be your mindset.

And if you’re about to tell me you used the free version… comparing free ChatGPT to the paid models is like comparing an iPhone 17 Pro Max to an iPhone 10.

Okay, I’ve given you the context. You know what’s happening. Now for the important part: what can you actually do? And not “someday.” This week.

First: make yourself pay for a model. At least for one month. It can be ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude. I personally recommend Claude. It’s $20 a month. Twenty dollars. You’ll notice the difference between the free version and the paid one, like going from an iPhone 10 to an iPhone 17.

Second: if you’re going to pay, use the best model available. Don’t settle for whatever comes as the default, which is usually the fastest but the dumbest one. Right now, the best ones are Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.2.

Third: commit to experimenting with these tools for one hour a day. No excuses. “I’m at work” doesn’t matter to me. Do it on your lunch break, before bed, or first thing in the morning. Just like you carve out an hour to hit the gym or play League of Legends, carve out an hour to experiment with these tools.

And to be clear: experimenting doesn’t mean treating it like a fancy Google to ask random questions. No. Experimenting means fixing your life. Hand it that contract you signed with your company that you never understood and have it break it down for you. Hand it your monthly budget spreadsheet and have it organize it and tell you where your money’s leaking. Give it real tasks that fix your actual life. AI is already good enough to fix your life. Literally.

And this brings me to something that was hard for me to learn but that you need to hear: drop the ego. It happened to me too. I’d been coding for 15 years. Typing letter by letter, by hand, without decent autocomplete.

When I first started running into these tools, my ego told me: “No way. I’m not letting this replace what took me years to develop.”

But you know what? Senior leaders at the biggest companies in the world are already spending hours every day using these tools. Not because they’re curious. Because they understand what’s at stake.

If they, with decades of experience, don’t have the ego to sit down and learn this, you can’t afford to either.

And I’ll be honest about something that’s hit me hard: you need to build what I call an adaptive muscle. I’m a very linear person. I get used to a workflow that works for me and I hold onto it.

But these past few months I’ve had to learn something today, try to master it tomorrow, and by the following week throw it out because it’s already obsolete. That’s how fast this is moving. You don’t even get time to master it. And that’s okay.

The person who comes out ahead in all this isn’t the one who masters a tool. It’s the one who gets comfortable being a beginner over and over.

And honestly, here’s some financial advice I hope you won’t need but that’s better to have: if you can, build an emergency fund. Avoid new debt. Don’t assume your current income is guaranteed.

And if you have the option to look for roles where people genuinely depend on you, that require physical presence, or that are in heavily regulated industries, that buys you some temporary shelter. I know it’s easy to say, but trust me, some tough months are coming. And whoever’s prepared is going to navigate it a lot better.

But here’s the thing, everything I just told you has another side. And it’s the better looking one. Remember that project you had sitting abandoned somewhere? That idea you could never build because you didn’t know how to code, or didn’t have the money to hire someone? That barrier doesn’t exist anymore.

Today you can describe your idea to an AI and start building it together. I do it every day. I spend hours working with Sinistra Bot, my local openclaw, who I talk to more than my own wife, day and night. Building product. Actually, it’s the one that helped me write this very script.

The barrier to creating something got removed. The whole world just got handed the ability to build. You have a world class tutor, available 24/7, for $20 a month. For any skill you want.

You don’t need to pay for expensive courses anymore. You don’t need to watch 47 YouTube tutorials anymore. You have the best pocket tutor that has ever existed. Knowledge is basically free now. It’s never been this accessible to anyone with even a bare minimum internet connection.

So yes, turbulent times are coming. But so is the biggest opportunity our generation is going to get to reinvent itself. This is the best time to work on yourself. Don’t waste it.

I’m going to keep sharing this journey with you. This is the new version of Serudda. And we’re just getting started. See you in the next video.