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September 26thThe argument in one line.
Being early to a disruptive AI claim means seeing where the technology is headed years before the public does, and the backlash that follows is really just the public's first exposure to an idea they aren't ready to hear.
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READ IF YOU ARE…
- A cold email or outreach agency owner deciding how much creative control and visibility to give clients during the early testing phase.
- Someone trying to build a SaaS product mostly with AI coding tools and wondering whether they can skip hiring developers entirely.
- A solo creator running a paid community who wants an unfiltered opinion on whether AI-assisted replies erode audience trust.
- Anyone who has posted something online that triggered a mass pile-on and wants to see someone else process it out loud in real time.
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- You're looking for a scripted tutorial. This is an unscripted comment Q&A plus a live reaction to a Twitter/X pile-on, not a step-by-step lesson.
- You want a demo of AI music tools. Suno is discussed anecdotally as the trigger for the backlash, never shown or used on screen.
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Nick Saraev answers daily-update subscriber questions on structuring cold email guarantees (keep the client blind to the messy early testing phase), whether a non-developer can build a full SaaS product with AI coding tools alone (close, but not yet), and why he manages his paid community personally instead of automating replies (audiences can tell, and it costs trust). He then pivots to the fallout from a viral X post declaring music streaming over because AI-generated songs are now good enough, working through days of hate replies before framing the reaction as the same pattern he saw selling AI-generated paintings in 2020: people defend whatever category they still consider sacred until the technology forces the point.
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00:00 – 00:44
01 · Intro: today's format
Nick states a $400K month and outlines the daily-update format: YouTube comment Q&A, build/strategize in public, and growth stats.
00:44 – 02:33
02 · Cold email offers
How to build offers and guarantees for cold email clients on a kickoff call without letting them micromanage the unproven testing phase.
02:33 – 04:08
03 · Saad's no-call model
Weighs in on a peer's connector agency model that reportedly converts clients straight through cold email with no sales call, staying skeptical.
04:08 – 05:22
04 · Can you build a high-ticket SaaS solo with AI?
Answers whether a non-developer can build a full-stack SaaS product like Clairvo alone using Claude and Codex.
05:22 – 06:00
05 · AI community management
Explains he manages his Skool community entirely himself with no AI-written replies, for the sake of authenticity.
06:00 – 06:41
06 · Content plan for the next 3 months
Outlines a direction change: hiring ideation and editing help to free up time to record more high-quality videos.
06:41 – 09:10
07 · What motivates you to keep growing?
Reflects on intrinsic motivation past the point of financial need, using Elon Musk as an example of enjoying the work itself.
09:10 – 10:27
08 · Improved lead gen
Explains why scraped Apollo/Apify leads are increasingly junk and recommends sourcing directly from LinkedIn, filtered to recent activity.
10:27 – 14:44
09 · "Spotify is over": the AI music backlash
Reads through the viral X thread where he declared streaming over because of AI music, and the wave of hostile replies that followed.
14:44 – 16:32
10 · One Second Painting: the same backlash in 2020
Shows his 2020 AI-generated painting business and points out the backlash then mirrors the AI music backlash now.
16:32 – 18:30
11 · Nothing sacred anymore
Argues early adopters see technology's direction years ahead of the public, and wonders what's left once nothing stays sacred.
18:30 – 18:50
12 · Outro
Signs off to get to a podcast recording.
Lines worth screenshotting.
- On a cold email kickoff call, the fastest way to stop client micromanagement is removing their ability to veto the early, messy testing phase before a working angle is found.
- Clients who challenge a cold email agency's approach are almost always the same clients who couldn't make cold email work themselves, which is exactly why they hired someone else.
- Selling a complex, high-ticket offer through cold email alone, with no sales call, still usually requires inbound authority, like a backlog of content, before a stranger trusts the pitch.
- Building a full-stack, high-ticket SaaS product entirely with AI coding tools is close to possible for a non-developer but not there yet, and it won't be fast or simple when it is.
- A personally-written community response is still detectable as different from an AI-assisted one, and audiences increasingly notice and penalize the difference.
- Scraped Apollo and Apify leads run roughly 20 to 30 percent junk once the underlying data goes stale, which is high enough to hurt deliverability and reply rates.
- Filtering LinkedIn leads to profiles that posted within the last 90 days is a cheap proxy for data accuracy, since inactive profiles are the ones most likely to carry outdated job titles and locations.
- A viral post claiming 'streaming is over' because AI music is now good enough drew days of hate replies, including people telling him to kill himself, within 24 hours.
- The exact 'if a machine made it, it's not art' backlash hitting AI music in 2026 is the identical reaction his AI-generated paintings got in 2020, years before Midjourney existed.
- A single blunt, binary statement draws disproportionately more hate than the same, directionally correct point made with nuance would.
- Early adopters form conclusions about where a technology is headed years before the general public catches up, and the backlash when they say it out loud is the public's first exposure to that idea.
- Once enough categories, art, then music, stop being considered uniquely human, it becomes unclear what's left for people whose identity is built around being a consumer of that category.
Early access to AI previews the fight everyone else is about to have
WHAT TO LEARN
The same reasoning that works for kickoff calls, SaaS builds, and lead lists also explains why an early, blunt AI claim gets hated on: the speaker has already seen where the technology goes, and the audience hasn't caught up yet.
02Cold email offers
- When a client pushes back on a cold email agency's approach, the fix is removing their ability to veto the early testing phase, not more explanation.
- Run the first testing phase of any cold outreach engagement anonymized, without the client's brand name or details, so early failures don't feel like reputational risk to them.
- A client who insists they already know their ICP and unique angle is usually the same client who has been unable to make cold email work on their own.
03Saad's no-call model
- Selling a complex offer through cold email alone, with no discovery call, usually still requires inbound authority, like a body of content, so a stranger trusts the pitch before ever talking to you.
- A model that promises high-ticket sales purely through cold email, skipping calls entirely, is worth treating with skepticism until you've seen it work more than once, not adopted on reputation alone.
- If something in a business model sounds too good to be true, like making money without ever getting on a call, assume it works only in a narrow case, not as a general playbook.
04Can you build a high-ticket SaaS solo with AI?
- AI coding tools are close to letting a non-developer build a full-stack, high-ticket SaaS product alone, but not there yet. Expect a slow, difficult build rather than a smooth one.
- A team of developers still earns its keep catching the mundane pull requests, merges, and edge cases that AI tools miss, especially on a product built before models were good enough to take those over.
- You can build cool demos and solo apps with AI alone right now. A production-grade, sellable SaaS product is a different bar.
05AI community management
- Managing a paid community personally, without AI-written replies, is a trust decision, not a time-management one: audiences can tell when a response is a wrapper around a model instead of a person.
- Spending the first 30 to 60 minutes of the day voice-transcribing answers to community questions keeps the tone recognizably human, at the cost of that time never being automatable.
06Content plan for the next 3 months
- Hiring ideation and editing help to free up recording time is a bet that more high-quality video output beats personally handling every part of production.
- Changing content direction after repeatedly going back and forth on it signals the previous format hit a ceiling worth walking away from, not a plan to abandon lightly.
07What motivates you to keep growing?
- Past a certain wealth threshold, an additional dollar stops driving behavior, so motivation to keep working at that point is about enjoying the act of building, not accumulation.
- People who've never built something at scale tend to read continued ambition after 'enough money' as greed or confusion, because they're projecting what they would do in that position.
- Feeling good while designing systems and solving bottlenecks, not despite the work but because of it, is a different relationship to work than treating work as something to escape.
08Improved lead gen
- Apollo and Apify-scraped lead lists run roughly 20 to 30 percent junk once the underlying data goes stale, which is high enough to materially hurt cold email deliverability and reply rates.
- Source leads directly from LinkedIn instead of a stale scraped database, then filter to profiles active in the last 90 days, as a practical proxy for data accuracy.
- Inactive LinkedIn profiles are the ones most likely to carry outdated job titles, emails, and locations, so recency of activity is a cheap filter for list quality.
09"Spotify is over": the AI music backlash
- A viral post claiming 'streaming is over' because AI music is now good enough can draw days of hate replies, including people telling you to kill yourself, within 24 hours.
- Stating a directionally correct prediction in the most blunt, binary way possible draws disproportionate hate compared to the same point made with nuance.
- Getting reposted and mocked by strangers can still be read as validation. The volume of reaction is itself a signal the statement landed on something people care about.
10One Second Painting: the same backlash in 2020
- The exact backlash pattern hitting AI music in 2026, 'if a machine made it, it's not art,' is the identical reaction AI-generated paintings got in 2020, years before Midjourney existed.
- A new medium threatening a category people consider sacred, art, then music, produces the same denial-then-anger cycle regardless of which specific technology triggers it.
11Nothing sacred anymore
- Early adopters form conclusions about where a technology is headed years before the public catches up, so the backlash they get is really the public's first exposure to an idea, compressed into anger.
- When enough categories stop being 'sacred' to human-only creation, it's unclear what's left for people whose identity is built around being a consumer of that category.
- The dread felt the day a disruptive model first launches is the same dread today's critics of that technology are feeling now, just running a few years behind.
Terms worth knowing.
- Connector agency model
- A cold-outreach agency structure, attributed here to a creator named Saad, that reportedly skips scraping tools and sales calls entirely, using AI scrapers and AI-written copy to convert leads to paying clients straight through email.
- Suno V6 Pro
- An AI music generation model capable of producing full, listenable songs from a prompt, cited as the evidence that AI-generated music has become good enough to threaten streaming platforms.
- One Second Painting
- An AI art business Nick started in 2020 that sold AI-generated paintings, built years before tools like Midjourney existed, using models fine-tuned on his own curated reference art.
- Apollo / Apify scraping
- Common cold-email lead sourcing methods that pull contact data from a database (Apollo) or scrape it programmatically (Apify); the data degrades over time as people change jobs or emails go stale.
Things they pointed at.
Lines you could clip.
01:34
“Cold email is a game. At the end of the day, I'm going to throw a ton of stuff at the wall until I find something that sticks.”
11:11
“I'm not joking when I say this, Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.”
12:08
“I have had more people tell me to kill myself in the last 24 hours than probably the last 30 years of my life.”
16:17
“If a machine made it, it's not art. This is the same reaction. It's just occurring further up the moat.”
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What is going on everybody? I made over 400 grand last month and I talk about how on this channel there are my daily updates. On this channel, I first start with YouTube comment Q &A to answer as many questions as you guys have for me, what I'm doing with my own business, or potentially, you know, what you guys are doing in yours.
I've done build and strategize in public for finally showing you guys growth stats across YouTube, Instagram, and products. Most people that watch this channel are, you know, into business, AI for business technology. So if that is you, then by all means, ask me whatever questions you guys want, and I'm happy to answer.
I do this by scrolling down after sorting by new and then, yeah, answering. And I think we're at a six -day cutoff right now. So I'm just going to go down to the last of these six days and start right from here.
Thank you very much, Punko. I appreciate you. Jabin says, went on a kickoff.
how do I build offers and guarantees for my cold email clients? I feel like oftentimes this is hard to communicate to the client that we need something that works in a cold email. Usually some sort of manually done lead magnet guarantee, hard to say no offer, etc.
Do you have an SOP for this or a set way of doing things? So how do I build offers and guarantees for my cold email clients on a kickoff call? Number one, simplest and easiest way of doing this is not giving your clients too much control or oversight of your cold email process.
The reason for that is because if they were really good at cold email, they would have done it themselves. Odds are they're not very good at cold email.
And so it's usually reflection on just lack of ability in marketing in general. They typically think they have a good niche and they know their market. They think they have a good angle and, you know, XYZ makes them unique, but they don't really know.
And odds are they're a little bit mistaken about that. The way that I always frame things on a kickoff call is cold email is a game. At the end of the day, I'm going to throw a ton of stuff at the wall until I find something that sticks.
And so in order to do that, that first testing phase, I'm not going to use your company name. I'm not going to use information about you, so you don't need to worry about reputation or branding. What we are going to do is we're going to test a bunch of different offers alongside each other, a bunch of different ways of pitching things alongside each other.
And when I have a winner, I'll come back to you with said winner, and we can turn it into something more fleshed out, let's say. We can verify feasibility and so on. so the idea there is like hey man just let me do my damn thing okay quit bitching and moaning all day about oh that's not my icp nick or um actually i don't like that language that we're using or we can't really guarantee all this stuff because it's like i get it i get where you're coming from and i completely understand i was you know in your shoes as well at one point but at the end of the day we got to try a lot until we figure out the little bit that actually works okay so hopefully that makes sense and i think i have probably answered the second question here too hit all those keywords can you share some thoughts on sod please he's making videos on a cool two -way connector agency model I haven't seen it anywhere before, and it's almost too hard to believe to the point where I'm suspicious.
Would you vouch for him? Have you seen some of his latest stuff? Sidesteps, Appify scrapers for leads and writing copy, and even hopping on sales calls.
So I basically want to adopt the same model, yet I'm a bit confused on if I can trust it. And it'd be really beneficial for me to even attempt the route of just firing up a campaign, don't even try to get on a call, convert straight through email like he did supposedly on video multiple times already. But then again, if that's the money, and if that's the method, my goal isn't to be corporate or special like you said, why not just follow his model?
But then I get the concern I might not be able to sell, but isn't selling good literally just how confident you are in your offer and practice matters less if you've already seen a dry value. So I haven't looked at the specific model. I think I was like I knew about the initial connector agency model, and that sounded pretty solid to me.
I think it'd be pretty difficult to sell. unless you jumped on a call unless you also had some sort of inbound authority so if you had a bunch of videos that people could you know reference and then you use cold email to alert them or point them to those videos they watch the videos they really like what they hear they go oh wow this is actually pretty fleshed out yeah you might not you might not need a sales call but i think like if i'm selling totally cold just as somebody who's done this you know tens hundreds of thousands of times they're probably going to want to see your face on a call if they're a total stranger they've never heard of you and they're not even really super sure if they need this to begin with I wish you could just make money without necessarily having to jump on a call, especially initially.
But if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. So I don't know. I mean, maybe he's doing it well because he has a specific way of doing things, but it's not personally how I would probably proceed.
Nick, follow -up question on Clairvaux. You mentioned you now have five devs. The reason I ask is because I've been trying to build a smaller MVP version of Clairvaux for Latin America, focused only on the key parallel calling, speed delete, and phone number health features.
I've been at it for over two months, and I'm still not there. I've also spent more than $3K on Clod and ChatGPT Max subs. I'm not a developer, so I'm starting to wonder whether it's realist to build something like this with AI alone.
What is your take? Can I build a full stack, successful, high -ticket SaaS alone, just with ChatGPT or Codex? I mean, I think you could.
I think the technology is really close to getting to the point where you could, but I don't really think you can right now. In the case of my SaaS, which is all about optimizing your pickup rates, usually for inbound ads, but we also do outbound calls as well. We have developers because we need the developers in order to create a good app.
And we actually developed a big chunk of it before models got to the point where they were good enough to take over a lot of the mundane PRs and pull requests, merges and stuff like that. as nice as it would be to be able to do everything entirely on your own i think you can build like cool demos and stuff i think you could probably build cool like solo apps but building a full stack thing right now totally um yourself without understanding any of the info because you're not a developer would still probably be pretty difficult like don't get me wrong you could do it it's just would it be good would it be fast would it be simple and straightforward probably not Decimus says, Nick, love your content.
Could you break down how you use AI to manage your school community? What systems or frameworks do you use? I don't actually use AI to manage my school community at all.
It's 100 % me. I do not use any AI tool or whatever to respond to comments for me. I don't do anything like that.
I actually literally just wake up every morning and the first 30 to 60 minutes of my day, I'm just like here with my mic voice transcribing answers to questions. And I do that because I think that authenticity is at quite the premium. and most people that are doing stuff like this, people spot, and the quality just goes way down as a result.
Not only does the quality go down, but people can just smell when it's not you and you're just a clod wrapper. We're all very sensitive to that nowadays, so it doesn't make sense to do so. What is your plan for the next three months, says Mukul?
Are you looking to expand? If yes, what are the areas you're looking to make content around? Yeah, we're looking to make content on a lot of cool stuff.
We've recently changed direction. I've hired some ideation people, and then I'm going to be hiring an editor as well to help me with the content. And the whole idea is just to completely and utterly unlock my potential and ascend.
Now, my whole idea is I just want to really have the time to be able to sit down and record high -quality videos again. I'm just feeling so bottlenecked and pulled in a bunch of directions because of editing and whatnot. I've gone back and forth and back and forth so many times on this, so it remains to be seen whether this is the way.
But I think there's a lot of potential where I'm at right now, and I want to grow. So we'll see. future man lab says nick i see a strong motivation to grow even when you're going on a trip curious about what is your intrinsic motivation to keep growing at this point so what is your intrinsic motivation to keep growing if you've already made you know many millions of dollars and have more money than you could comfortably spend one thing i've realized quite recently is that this whole idea that people grow simply for the sake of accumulation of power is very weird and it's something that unfortunately You would only believe if you'd never done anything like that before.
What I mean is, people look at Elon Musk, for instance, who I know is controversial and has haters and a lot of lovers, apparently. I was just reading through some weird X threads where a bunch of chicks were like, ah.
But they look at him and they're like, this guy's already a freaking billionaire. What the hell is he doing? He just wants to claw up as much money as humanly possible for himself because he's greedy.
I don't think there is... any way shape or form that an additional marginal dollar at his point makes any difference to his quality of life whatsoever and so there's absolutely no like it's not like a greed or desire thing do you think like that guy wants to wake up and spend 16 18 hours a day just getting shit on constantly by half the world do you think he wants to like i don't know compromise on his health and his his family values and stuff like that obviously he does but like do you think it's just because he wants to accumulate an additional marginal dollar that does absolutely nothing for him or his quality of life at all this guy could buy every super yacht on fucking earth basically with uh you know spacex is market capitalization alone so the answer is obviously not that the answer is almost certainly just like one genuinely enjoying the activity of accomplishing big things and so that is something that i think most people will just never understand or recognize
because they're never in a position where they have actually done that. They always see work as something to get away from or avoid or I want to go on a trip, I want to vacate, I want to do whatever. And then two, they're probably just projecting because that's what they would do in that situation, right?
They would just say, well, I already have all this money. I just sit back and relax. But I mean, I am relaxed.
I feel really good when I record videos and work with clients. I feel really good when I'm designing systems that solve bottlenecks. All this stuff is fucking awesome.
So yeah, it's pretty sweet. Okay, the distinction between content that drives reach and content that deepens trust with your existing audience is a really valuable one. Not every piece needs to maximize views if it strengthens relation with the people already paying attention.
Thank you, Jeff. A lot of voice breaking, got the audio issues and stuff like that. Hey, Nick says, on a basis, would be great if you launch an updated course on lead gen.
A lot of the older methods no longer work and the remaining scrapers generate terrible or outdated leads. Would love to see how you do it at scale today and get quality leads. Thank you.
Yeah, I usually don't use Appify to scrape Apollo these days. The reason why is because it's just like, it's been a while since those leads were scraped and you know, we're sitting at like what, 20, 30 % like junk leads now, which is like very, it's quite a high number, right? Just to have total junk leads whose emails don't work, their data's all off and all that shit.
So if you want like high quality leads, you really do have to go direct to LinkedIn. And then ideally you would actually look for people that have posted in the last 30 days. uh 90 days sorry there's a filter for it the reason for that is because if you haven't posted in the last 90 days odds are your data is incorrect and if your data isn't correct now you're getting a subset of a list of people that is also probably not going to line up like their locations are going to be off their business names are going to be different you're going to send to them and it's just going to be trash so it's unfortunate but that's just kind of how it is all right how are we doing on time here we're doing pretty well i guess yeah yeah um Cool.
So 10 minutes in, this is just my little Riverside flow thing. I just recorded a podcast with Jack, so I need to do that. Right after this, I also need to run my daily update because I'm getting out of the house.
I'm going to go have an acai bowl. Guys, I received a lot of hate yesterday. I got to talk about it.
I made this X thread, which has gone horrifically viral, too viral, all about AI music. And it's actually right over here, funnily enough. I should probably mute this.
Basically, I made a post on X about how AI is going pretty viral in media, specifically music. And Suno and other models are really good. And I kept on coming across AI models in my feed.
Sorry, AI music in my feed. And I was listening to them. And I was just like, holy shit, this is actually pretty good.
And I'm like, who is this? And then I went to the guy and I realized it was AI. So I was like, holy shit, this is sick.
Then I started following a bunch of people that were making AI music on X and Twitter. And a couple of them were doing things I really liked. So I started being like, hey, how are you making this stuff?
And then I realized it was like Suno V6 Pro. Then I started making some music on Suno V6 Pro. And then eventually I made this comment right over here, which was, I'm not joking when I say this, Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
AM music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all AM music is circulating today is from two or three generations ago. Suno V6 Pro at all has solved infinite personalized music.
you know, with the intention that the personalized music would be like, you can make your own music wherever you want. People got kind of pissed, right? Not that pissed, but like kind of pissed.
And then I made an addendum basically saying this is probably going to hurt your feelings, but it's still going to happen. It's just a relentless march of technology. I then, you know, analogized it to microphones, synthesizers, sampling, all other things that people have not liked throughout history.
And oh boy, did I get cooked. I got cooked pretty hard. People dislike.
this sentiment for sure. I have had more people tell me to kill myself in the last 24 hours than probably the last 30 years of my life. And despite having a couple of like cool, Hey Jackie, what's up?
Cool people, uh, you know, try and support me here. Like people do not like this. Do not like that is clear.
So yeah, most comments are like this. They're like, Your eardrums should be surgically removed if you intentionally listen to AI music.
You do not deserve to experience art and the untold millions of artists making millions of songs yearly should be allowed to kill your soulless husk at will. Infinite personalized music, STFU. There's no greater joy in this life than searching and finally finding music that suits your niche.
You know, a couple people, obviously, probably one in four, one in five people go like, hey, that's not actually bad. And this is going to happen. But most people are like, thinking music is something that can be solved is checkers.
It's an unbearably disgusting concept. There are AI ghouls who think you can boil down all human creation to predictable equations. Fuck these guys.
Imagine being fed slop to your ears for hours a day. Does this guy still have a working brain? A bunch of people just reposted my photo, which is actually such an epic burn.
I can't actually be mad at that. Like, damn. What a burn.
I'm imagining, I don't know, I'm just trying to absolutely kneecap somebody, freaking decapitate or hamstring them later. And then I just post a photo of their face and I'm like, enough said. I've learned a lot through this experience.
These are a fucking banger. They're so good. This guy said, written by someone who goes to the mall to have fun.
That's probably one of the funniest things I've ever heard. This guy doesn't know how to listen to music. He's listening to music incredibly.
Some of these are like pretty big people, right? Obviously, I got a lot of falls. Anyway, I mean, I could go through this.
Feel free to go through this if you want. But a lot of them are basically, you know, calling for my execution in public, which is kind of wild. I think I've come to realize that like this is not going to stop.
What I mean by this is like the effect where you, I, and other people, you know, we see things a little bit earlier than other people do. And then we popularize it or talk about it. And then most people just have like a violent sort of immune system reaction to it because they're just not, I mean, they're, you know, it's like so many shades of gray and nuance that need to be discussed.
I think before you get to the point where like a statement like that actually lands and it's my own fault for making it extremely black and white, like streaming is over. Um, but I've come to realize like, this is just going to keep, it's going to keep happening. I made a business called one second, a painting, uh, back in 2020.
And so what I did here, was I had AI. I fine -tuned a bunch of models that were pre -existing on my own art and stuff that I found really interesting.
And then I had AI basically design images. And so you can see this is an early AI image design. And this is well before Midjourney or anything else.
And I mean, I love this stuff. It was like everything for me, right? It's just one of the coolest things ever.
The idea that I could actually have AI paintings generated and so on. Oh my God. At the time, nobody knew that this sort of shit was possible.
And it was like, honestly, really sick. And, uh, yeah, I mean like there's, there's a lot of this stuff and people have, let me see if I could actually like exact match to show you guys the art. This was like an AI painting, uh, that I put together forever ago, probably six, seven years ago.
Um, I think this was one as well. You can see the arts is just a little bit off, right? It's like a very small and kind of low quality network.
Um, here's a bunch of these different paintings that I put together and was selling for like 38, 40 bucks. The response I got to this. was very similar to the response I'm getting six years later.
The difference is back then, well, the difference is we're talking about music versus art, but back then art was also considered sacred. Design was considered sacred. It was considered quintessentially human and something that only humans could do.
When models came out that could start doing this sorts of stuff, people got really angry. And so a lot of people were like, oh my God, Nick, this fucking sucks. This is AI slop.
This is, they didn't have a term for it back then, but this is machine generated garbage. Or they'd be like, this is incredible art. Where'd you get it?
And I'd be like, oh, I made it using this tool. And then they'd be like, oh my God, this sucks. If a machine made it, it's not art.
This is the same reaction. It's just occurring further up the moat. And it will continue to occur, basically, until virtually nothing is sacred anymore.
My worry is that when nothing is sacred anymore, people like this, whose whole identity is really, you know, like the art that they listen to, the art that they watch, and so on and so forth. they're not really going to have anything left. And my concern is that's going to suck a lot for these people.
Like it's really, really, really going to suck. I don't know what the world is going to look like when virtually nobody else has like anything that is there. There's no defensible mode.
I don't know what the world's going to look like when obviously we've automated the vast majority of tasks that people currently do to generate income. I don't know what all these people that, you know, want me to jump off a bridge are or ask me about my ethnicity for some reason. you know, I don't know what they do for work, but I imagine a lot of them are probably creatives, right?
They're probably like people that are in fields like this that, you know, look at me and then they're like, oh, here's some fucking tech bullshit ass guy. That's like stealing my job. He's ruining the meaning of art.
He's doing everything terrible. He's basically my, my natural enemy. Um, it, it does make me worry.
It does make me worry. I see why Sam Altman has a big bunker. You know what I mean?
So yeah, I, uh, I don't know. I'm, I'm like happy obviously that I got super viral. Mark Anderson.
followed me a couple of other like big names on x followed me probably because they they somewhat agree um but you know either would get crucified for it or just not super interested um but yeah man like y 'all just got to be careful with this stuff for sure y 'all got to be careful with the stuff for sure because there's a massive chunk of the world that just does not understand this technology just yet it is coming for us all and i think the unfortunate thing is like when GPT -3 came out back in 2020, I kind of went for a big walk and I was like, fuck, my life is fucking over.
I think I was having a very similar experience to what these people are experiencing at right now. This is also just the tip of the iceberg. This is literally like, this is 2 % of the world.
Imagine when the other 98 % of the world sort of wakes up to just like the actual real capabilities of this. It's going to be fucking hard. So yeah, like my heart goes out to these people.
They really are. It really does. And I hope, you know, they find peace and I hope that I continue to rage bait effectively and you know get tons of followers but yeah just thought i'd share that with you because fuck shit's going pretty well huh okay anyway that's me thank you guys very much i gotta go because i gotta jump on that so you will have a lovely rest of the day okay see ya
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
Nick Saraev opens his daily update with a revenue number, then works through subscriber questions on cold email guarantees, solo SaaS builds, and community management before pivoting into the real story: the pile-on he's been getting since declaring on X that AI music has made streaming obsolete.
Named ideas worth stealing.
01:34concept
Blind testing phase for cold email kickoff calls
On the first kickoff call, run the initial cold email testing phase without using the client's brand name or details, so the client can't veto the messy iteration process before a working angle is found.
Steal forany service business onboarding a client into an unproven process where early client oversight kills iteration speed
09:49concept
90-day LinkedIn activity filter for lead quality
- Skip Apollo/Apify scraped lists once they go stale
- Source leads directly from LinkedIn
- Filter to profiles active (posted) in the last 90 days
- Inactive profiles correlate with outdated job titles, emails, and locations
A practical proxy for lead-data freshness: recent posting activity signals the profile's contact and firmographic data is still accurate.
Steal forany B2B cold email or LinkedIn outreach list-building process
How they asked for the click.
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PRIMARY CTAWhere the creator wants you to go next.
OTHER LINKSAlso linked in the description.
Visual structure at a glance.
