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This week, Axios ran what I think is a really smart piece on the world's reaction to AI. The argument goes that the AI world is fracturing into three distinct groups: power users, doubters, and resisters. And if you are a skilled, experienced journalist, the camp you land in right now matters more than you might think.

The power users are genuinely living in a different reality. According to Axios, former OpenAI and Tesla AI leader Andrej Karpathy told the "No Priors" podcast that he spends 16 hours a day issuing commands to AI agent swarms. Sixteen hours. That’s way beyond my own capabilities, but mind-bending nonetheless.

The doubters, meanwhile, formed their opinions based on a single bad session with a free chatbot and never looked back. That gap in experience is now showing up as a gap in economic outcomes, with sometimes violent reactions (like we saw this week with someone throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s home). Anthropic's March 2026 economic impact report found that experienced users attempt harder tasks and succeed at higher rates, which means the productivity advantage compounds over time.

The resisters are the group worth addressing directly, because the impulse is understandable. The fear is real. The job anxiety is real. An Indianapolis legislator had his home struck by gunfire over data center opposition. A suspect was arrested last week for the Molotov cocktail attack. Even Altman himself acknowledged after the attack that the fear surrounding AI "is justified."

But I want to point something out to those of you who are dead set on staying in the third group:  You did not build careers this long and resilient by digging your heels in and refusing to learn a new tool. Whether you learned digital publishing, social media, data journalism, podcast production, or even video production, often while filing on deadline, you still got your core job done–telling great stories that change the world. In my opinion, those most at risk right now are not the journalists who are afraid of AI (trust me, if you’re not afraid of it, you’re not paying attention) but the ones who simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to use it. 

You do not have to spend 16 hours a day in AI agent swarms. But you do need to know what those swarms can and cannot do, because that knowledge is what separates the journalists who will adapt to this new world from those who could be left behind. 

So which camp do you fall into?

The journalists who adapt best to AI are not the ones who use it the most. They are the ones who understand how to analyze what it produces, where it fails, and why. That is a skill you build deliberately, the same way you build any analytical muscle: by going back over your decisions, finding the weak spots, and doing it again.

Chess turns out to be a surprisingly good training ground for exactly that kind of thinking. Not the playing, but the analysis afterward. The synthesization of information, if you will. 

If you play chess online (on Chess.com, for example), there’s a tool you should be using to get better at the long game.  My other half has built an app that provides individualized coaching to help you become fundamentally better at Chess, and he’s looking for a handful of Android testers to give him feedback about the app. 

The app is called Chessalyze, and it is a new Android app that imports your games from Chess.com and Lichess, then gives you move-by-move Stockfish analysis with accuracy ratings, move classifications (brilliant, blunder, and everything in between), and an interactive evaluation graph, plus player insights including strengths and weaknesses, all running locally on your device. You can rerun old games to learn where you went wrong, and you own all the data.

Sign up via this Google Doc link to try it out and give feedback before he releases it into the wild. Once you sign up, you’ll get a link to download the app for free. Right now, it's only available to Android users, but he plans to open it to Apple users once he completes this round of testing. If you signed up last week, be sure to find the automated email response and download the app to start learning from your games.

The jobs list is huge today and includes more than 50 (!!!) new opportunities for journalists to make as much as $334,000 per year. All of the roles are hybrid or remote, all pay at least $1 per word or $100k per year, and I include all email addresses and pitching guides so you can chase down the right editors to pitch.

On the freelance front, there are opportunities to pitch:

There are tons of brand new opportunities to go full-time, too.

There are also some really great Comms/Media-adjacent roles for you.

The Dishonorables are rip-roaring today, and there’s one really nice Passion Project for you.

All jobs pay at least $1 per word and up to a huge $334,000 per year, and all the jobs on this list have been listed in the last seven days.