Here are the highlights from the week that was in AI and our spicy takes on what it actually means. 🌶️
This week in AI:
- Developers are building entire products while on customer calls
- AI companions are eating dating apps for lunch
- The hype around AI tokens is meeting cold reality.
Meanwhile, AI is getting personal with custom learning paths that adapt to how you think...Oh, and Midjourney just casually announced they're building medical scanners that are 100X faster than MRIs. With a team of 9.🤯
On the Chipp side:
- Kicking off Systems of Change workshops starting June 25th
- Launching the next Business Agents of Change cohort on July 7th
- Hosting Chipp Con in Fargo on July 30th.
AI Highlights from Around the Web
Developer Builds Autonomous Product During Customer Call
Todd Saunders just casually dropped this: while on a call with a customer, he fired up Cursor (an AI coding tool) and built an entire autonomous building system that actually works. Not a prototype. Not a proof of concept. A working product. During. A. Call.
🌶️ The meeting was the build time. We've crossed into a reality where customer discovery and product development happen simultaneously. Software velocity isn't measured in sprints anymore—it's measured in conversations. At Chipp, we're already operating this way. If you're still planning two-week sprints, you're already behind.
The 14 Levels of AI Transformation (And Where You Actually Are)
Alex Lieberman mapped out the entire AI transformation journey from "I tried ChatGPT once" to "My AI employees run my business." It's a brutally honest roadmap that starts at Level 0 (AI skeptic) and goes all the way to Level 14 (AI-native operating system). Most people think they're at Level 7. They're at Level 3.
🌶️ If you're reading this, you're probably somewhere between Level 4 ("I use ChatGPT regularly") and Level 8 ("I've built custom GPTs"). The gap to Level 12+ ("AI agents handle complex workflows autonomously") isn't technical—it's mental. The tools are here. The question is whether you're willing to let go. Our cohorts are designed to push you up this ladder fast.
Americans Now Spend 2x More Time With AI Companions Than Dating Apps
The data just dropped: Americans are spending twice as much time talking to AI companions as they are on dating apps. Not because dating apps are declining—they're not. AI companion usage is just exploding. People are forming genuine relationships with AI. Daily check-ins. Emotional support. Life advice.
🌶️ This isn't about loneliness—it's about availability. AI companions respond instantly, remember everything, never judge, and are optimized for your exact communication style. Humans can't compete with that level of attentiveness. The question isn't whether this is healthy (that ship has sailed). The question is: what does this mean for every other relationship-based business? Therapy, coaching, consulting, customer support—all of it is about to get disrupted by entities that are infinitely patient and infinitely available.
Reality Check: AI Token Economics Don't Add Up (Yet)
Citadel just poured cold water on the AI token hype. After deep analysis of AI agent economies, their conclusion: the math doesn't work yet. Transaction costs are too high. Token velocity is too unpredictable. The infrastructure for AI-to-AI payments exists in theory but breaks down in practice. It's the equivalent of trying to build e-commerce before SSL.
🌶️ Good. The AI token casino needed this reality check. While everyone was speculating on "agent coins," the actual builders were focused on making AI agents that solve real problems for real money—regular USD. Chipp processes millions of AI interactions. Not one of them requires a blockchain. Build value first. Tokenize later. Or never. Most ideas don't need tokens; they need customers.
AI That Learns How You Learn
Matt Pocock just introduced a `/teach` skill that completely changes how AI helps you learn. Instead of generic explanations, the AI asks about your learning style, adapts its teaching method to match, and builds a personalized curriculum based on what you already know. It's like having a tutor who studies you as much as you study the subject.
🌶️ This is where AI education gets interesting. Generic learning is dead. Why would you learn from a one-size-fits-all course when you can have a teacher who adjusts in real-time to your confusion, connects concepts to things you already understand, and never gets tired of your questions? This is the future of every course, every tutorial, every training program. At Chipp, we're already building agents that do this for customer onboarding. The gap between "learning about a tool" and "being productive with a tool" just collapsed to minutes.
Midjourney Just Pivoted to Healthcare (With a Team of 9)
Wait, what? Midjourney—yes, the AI image generation company—just announced they're launching "Midjourney Medical." They've built a full-body scanner that's 100X faster and 10X cheaper than an MRI. It uses sound waves while you're submerged in water. No radiation. No giant magnets. Just 60 seconds and you get detailed 3D images of your entire body. And they're planning to scale to 50,000 scanners capable of a BILLION scans per month. The team building this? Nine people. NINE PEOPLE.
🌶️ This is what happens when AI-first companies realize they're not in the "image generation" business—they're in the "reality manipulation" business. Midjourney spent years training models to understand spatial relationships, lighting, anatomy, and physics. Turns out that's exactly what you need to process ultrasound data into 3D medical imaging. While healthcare companies were protecting their moats, a creative AI company just casually dropped a 100X improvement in diagnostic imaging. The pattern here isn't disruption from adjacent markets—it's AI companies realizing their core tech is way more generalizable than anyone thought. What other "creative tools" companies are secretly sitting on healthcare breakthroughs? What else can these models do that no one's tried yet?
Chipp Updates
Systems of Change: Private AI That Powers Your Work
We're launching a new workshop series on building private AI that actually integrates with your work. Two sessions starting June 25th and July 2nd at 4:30 PM CT. Learn how to deploy AI agents that work inside your systems, not outside of them.
Business Agents of Change: July Cohort Now Open
The next cohort of Business Agents of Change kicks off July 7th at 4:00 PM CT. Four weeks of hands-on training where you'll build four working agents: marketing content, lead scraping, 24/7 voice support, and a custom agent for your specific business needs.
This isn't theory. You'll leave with agents running in production.
Chipp Con: Fargo - July 30th
We're hosting Chipp Con in Fargo on July 30th. A full afternoon of AI strategy, hands-on workshops, and real implementations from Chipp builders. Then we're staying for the Night Bazaar (Fargo's best summer event—you don't want to miss it).
Get tickets for Chipp Con. Join us for Night Bazaar.
Week in Review: What We're Building
At Chipp, we're building with 5 agents for every 1 human. 100% of our code is written by AI. Every feature, every fix, every improvement. We're not just building an AI platform—we're building with AI as a core team member.
Want to see how we do it? That's what our cohorts are for. Join us.
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