2026-03-24. Nomoyu Daily for Indie Developers (Issue 311)

📰 News

From LinkedIn to OpenAI: the real risk was never AI itself

Have you also seen countless pieces of content like this? AI will take all your jobs. AI will drain the world’s electricity. AI is the Pandora’s box that will destroy humanity. But Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder and early core member of OpenAI, cut straight through this collective illusion about AI in an interview at Davos.

He used something he personally did to give the strongest possible slap to everyone who demonizes AI. A tech investor who cannot compose and cannot play any instrument used AI to create an entire Christmas music album, and it will soon go live on Spotify.

In many people’s eyes, AI is the enemy of creativity and a thief that plagiarizes art. But for Reid, AI became an outlet for expression, allowing someone with no musical foundation to turn his understanding of the holidays into melodies people can hear. That is AI’s most essential value: it has never been humanity’s opponent. It is the most powerful life amplifier you can get.

Today’s most popular anti-AI rhetoric boils down to three moves: it consumes energy, harms the climate, and drives up electricity prices. Even more ridiculous than moral blackmail is the chorus saying, “pause AI development until we solve every risk.” Reid made it plain: do you really think eight billion people around the world will press pause with you? It is like standing in a fast river and shouting for the water to stop instead of figuring out how to steer the boat. It will do nothing except flip you over.

We will never reach a good future by hiding from a bad one. What you can do is not stop technology, but actively master it and guide it in a direction that benefits humanity.

Many people fear AI because, at root, they fear being replaced by it. Reid used the example of a top Japanese architect. The architect first asks AI to generate 20 design options in his own style, then selects and iterates from them, compressing work that used to take weeks into hours. AI did not replace the creator. It freed the creator from repetitive labor and let them put all their energy into the parts that truly require creativity.

And it is not only top creators who benefit. Ordinary people are the biggest beneficiaries of AI. People who cannot code can use AI to build their own products. People who do not understand law can use AI to get basic legal assistance. People who cannot compose can use AI to make their own songs. AI hands creative power that once belonged only to a few people to every ordinary person. That kind of universality has never existed before in human history.

Reid calls this capability a “super agency.” You no longer have to be trapped by professional barriers; AI can become your critic, your industry expert, your dedicated team. You no longer have to ask AI, “what is the standard answer?” Instead, you can ask it for answers from different perspectives, let it fill in blind spots you cannot see, and turn thoughts in your head into real outcomes. How is that “replacing people”? It is clearly giving every ordinary person an unprecedented life power-up.

In the end, AI was never the threat to humanity. Humanity’s greatest threat is always the people who fear change and refuse to move. AI is the most powerful empowerment amplifier humans have ever had. What it amplifies is not machine capability, but human imagination, human creativity, and the human ability to change one’s own fate.

Reid’s advice for young people is almost too simple: do not wait for the dust to settle. Do not wait for AI’s rules to be finalized before acting. Do not wait until every risk is solved before getting started. From now on, use AI every week, try things, make mistakes, iterate, and see what it can help you accomplish. The people who truly seize the opportunity of the AI era will not be those standing still in anxiety, but those who take the wheel and drive toward the future they want.

🖥️ Software

DodoHabit

DodoHabit is a minimalist habit-tracking app that manages goals with a monthly view and exercise stats, while supporting custom habits and partner collaboration.

Formax AI

Formax AI is a workout-movement video analysis app that lets users upload training videos and receive timestamped posture-correction suggestions.

PIDKill

PIDKill is a macOS process-management and uninstall tool that repeatedly terminates specified background processes and cleans leftover components in one click.

🌐 Websites

StemAllDay

StemAllDay is a real-time signup-data dashboard service that connects to a database, counts today’s new users, and refreshes trend charts every 30 minutes.

AppShow

AppShow is an app demo video creation site that combines screen recordings with 3D device models and supports 4K export plus multiple canvas ratios.

Image to Prompt

Image to Prompt is an image-to-prompt tool that parses images into multilingual descriptions and generates structured prompts adapted for multiple models.

ContextFlow

ContextFlow is a content repurposing platform that turns YouTube videos or any URL into scripts for multiple platforms and provides prefilled publishing links.

PeakWave

PeakWave is a two-sided marketplace for seasonal jobs, connecting roles in areas such as skiing and yachting while supporting messaging between employers and candidates.

TrackMyRupee

TrackMyRupee is a personal finance dashboard that presents spending through month-over-month cards and Sankey charts, and generates monthly finance stories.

anti-agent

anti-agent is a reverse-learning AI tool that combines spaced repetition and active recall to improve skills and guide deliberate practice.

HoldingsIntel

HoldingsIntel is a fund-holdings analysis site that uses 13F and related data to calculate conviction scores, provide backtesting, and aggregate signals.

IP地理信息查询

IP地理信息查询 is an IP geolocation lookup site with a free API and open-source frontend and backend code for reference deployment.

BudgetBuddy

BudgetBuddy is a browser-based budgeting and bookkeeping app that records income and expenses by category and provides progress bars plus monthly summary charts.

InnerCompass

InnerCompass is a mobile emotional and self-awareness app that guides daily reflection journaling and provides structured practice paths.

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