Die Ära von AI FOMO steht vor der Tür

*Shona Ghosh for Bloomberg News*

Sometime earlier this year, the same type of post started popping up on social media. People I know or follow professionally kept talking about “vibe coding,” which they said allowed them to quickly create tools that made their lives easier. None of these were software developers or people who worked directly in the artificial intelligence sector. Instead, many were in creative industries, including writing, marketing and advertising.

Vincent Touati-Tomas, founder of marketing advisory firm Expression Capitale, told me that he describes Anthropic PBC’s Claude as “my second brain.” He uses Claude, alongside note-taking app Obsidian, to create scripts that organize his life — everything from compiling his tax return to analyzing his bloodwork to managing the information for his ongoing UK citizenship application.

“All my notes — my trips, the rules for the days I need to be out of the country, my calendars for the last five years — I dump these into a folder,” Touati-Tomas says. Claude does the rest. “It’s taken my friends months to do all these things, to fetch, gather all the information. It took me a weekend.”

This sounds highly productive, but his remarks also made me uneasy. I work a full-time job, and I’m the sleep-deprived mother of a 19-month-old. Is this how I’m meant to be spending the occasional 45 minutes I get to myself? Should I *want* to be making apps on the side? And what happens if I don’t?

The constant stream of new AI model releases, and the growing sense that many people are building AI-selves to do their boring paperwork and their boring thinking, is giving me a new kind of FOMO. If “fear of missing out” is the feeling you should be doing something better with your time — exacerbated by social media constantly showing us what everyone else is up to — AI makes that feeling more existential. It’s the nagging fear that if I don’t upskill quickly, I’ll fall permanently behind early adopters like Touati-Tomas. Online, there’s chatter about the emergence of a new “permanent underclass” of late AI adopters being frozen out of future gains. Posters are only half-joking.

[Read the full essay here.](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-03/why-ai-is-making-people-feel-like-they-re-falling-behind?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3NTIyMDMwOCwiZXhwIjoxNzc1ODI1MTA4LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUQ1dSSzRLSUpIOE8wMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJEMzU0MUJFQjhBQUY0QkUwQkFBOUQzNkI3QjlCRjI4OCJ9.eKIk3JfrD1OKOBXRV22-tT3nDQnxN0PEm80_2JDijKA)

The reason that this is so dumb is that AI is “coming to us”; we’re not “going to it”. By that I mean—the guy who’s dumping all his files into a folder today will himself be behind tomorrow, when any two-bit agent will know how to get all of those files from elsewhere itself. It’s simply not possible to be “left behind” because the technology becomes easier to use with every passing hour. Just wait it out and chill.

As for “making apps on the side”—I say this as an app developer—I wouldn’t worry about it. In a year or two you’ll say to your phone/home assistant/whatever “you know everything about me—now make or install whatever I need to run my life better”. The only part in doubt is whether we’ll be able to run all that intelligence locally or whether we’ll still need to be hooked up to stupid cloud services and subscriptions.