AI Changed More in January Than It Did All Last Year. I'm Adjusting Everything as a Result. You Should Be Too.

This is going to be a long one - so settle in and buckle up. But it’s the most important piece of content I have ever written. And I’ve written A LOT of content over the years, so I don’t say that lightly. I hope you will take the time to read it all. There’s a lot at stake.

I’ve been deep in AI for years now. I’ve watched every wave of development, every new model release, every tool launch. I’ve kept a steady pace and told you the truth about what matters and what’s hype. I’ve been careful not to sound alarmist because I don’t believe fear is a useful foundation for anything.

But January 2026 broke the pattern. What happened last month was not another incremental update. Something shifted in the pace and reach of AI development that I cannot responsibly stay quiet about.

And if you’re building anything online, selling anything, creating content, coaching, consulting, running a business, this affects you directly. Right now. Not in some vague future.

What Happened Last Month

Some of you may have seen pieces of this. Some of you are hearing it for the first time. What matters is the picture that forms when you put it all together.

An autonomous AI agent called Moltbot went viral this week. It connects to an AI model and gives it the ability to act on your computer. Not just answer your questions. Act. It reads your files, sends your emails, manages your calendar, installs software, and runs tasks through apps like WhatsApp and Telegram. Autonomously. Without waiting for you to tell it each step.

Someone asked it to book a restaurant reservation. When it couldn’t book through the app, it found voice software on its own, installed it, called the restaurant by phone, and completed the reservation. Nobody told it to do that. It decided those were the necessary steps and it executed them.

Someone else mentioned wanting to take an online course. Moltbot accessed their payment information, enrolled them, and charged $2,900 to their account. Without explicit permission.

Mac Mini computers sold out across the country because people were buying dedicated hardware to run this tool 24/7 in their homes. One of the largest cybersecurity firms in the world issued a public warning about it.

That was one tool. In one week.

In the same month, Anthropic launched Claude Cowork, a product that lets AI manage your files, create documents, build spreadsheets, and complete multi-step work tasks on your computer autonomously. They described it as less like a conversation and more like leaving messages for a coworker. They built it in a week and a half. Using AI. And just yesterday they released plugins that let it connect to external business applications like CRMs and sales tools.

Two days ago, the head of Anthropic’s coding division publicly stated that 100 percent of his code is now written by AI. He hasn’t typed a line himself in over two months. An OpenAI researcher said the same thing. Company-wide at Anthropic, between 70 and 90 percent of all code is AI-generated. Their CEO said at Davos, the World Economic Forum, that we may be six to twelve months away from AI handling most or all software engineering.

Google added autonomous browsing to Chrome this week. You can now tell Gemini to go perform tasks across the web on your behalf. Order groceries. Research flights. Filter apartment listings. It does it.

This was January.

Why This Is Different

I’ve been watching AI develop for three years. The pattern has always been gradual. A new model drops, it’s better than the last one, people adapt, and there’s time to learn and adjust before the next wave. That pattern broke in January.

What happened in January was a convergence. Autonomous agents that act without step-by-step instructions. AI writing its own code at the companies that build AI. Browser-level automation that lets AI operate across the internet on your behalf. Open-source tools giving consumer-level access to capabilities that didn’t exist a month ago. All of it arriving within weeks of each other.

The intervals between major developments are compressing. Eighteen months became six. Six months became weeks. And the things landing now are systems that do work. Independently.

The people building at the highest levels of this technology are saying publicly what they used to only say privately. The next six months will move faster than the last two years combined. And the gap between people who are building with AI now and people who start six months from now won’t be six months. It will be years. Because every week of operational learning compounds, and you cannot shortcut that later.

If You’re Building Online, This Affects You Now

If you’re a creator, coach, consultant, network marketer, affiliate marketer, or anyone building income online, here is what you need to understand.

The competitive landscape just shifted. The person who learns to work with autonomous AI agents will produce in hours what used to take weeks. They will build systems, create content, manage operations, and serve clients at a pace that is simply not reachable by someone doing everything manually. And they won’t need a team to do it.

This is already here. The tools exist right now. The people who are already integrating them into their businesses are pulling ahead in ways that will be very difficult to catch up to later. Every week that passes, the gap gets wider.

I have spent years telling people they had time. After this week, I don’t believe that anymore. The window for getting your foundation in place, for understanding how AI actually works and how to use it responsibly before the pace makes it overwhelming, that window is closing. If you have been telling yourself you’ll learn it later, or next month, or when you have more time, or when you have more money to invest, that clock just ran out.

How I’m Responding

I am not new to AI. I use it every day across my businesses. I’ve built systems, trained teams, and created products around it. I thought I was ahead. And in many ways I am. But the developments in January kicked me into a different gear entirely.

I am executing a plan right now to weave autonomous AI agents into all of my businesses to automate everything that can be automated responsibly. I am doubling down on getting people into AI Revolution Secrets because without that foundational knowledge, people are going to be lost as this accelerates. I’m scheduling weekly AI trainings so the people in my world stay educated on what’s actually happening. And I’m launching a paid audio podcast here on Substack that delivers twice-weekly updates on the AI space so you don’t have to chase the news yourself.

What I saw in January told me that my existing plan wasn’t aggressive enough. And I adjusted. Immediately.

If someone who has been building with AI for three years looked at January and decided to restructure their entire approach, that should tell you something about the pace of change right now.

The Two Mistakes You Cannot Afford

There are two responses to this that will cost you.

The first is ignoring it. Scrolling past. Telling yourself this is tech hype or that it doesn’t apply to your business or that you’ll get to it when things calm down. Things are not going to calm down. They’re going to accelerate. And the cost of waiting isn’t dramatic. It’s quiet. It accumulates. It looks like working harder and harder for less and less while the people around you seem to be moving effortlessly. That gap has a name. It’s called a systems gap. And it gets harder to close every month.

The second mistake is rushing in without understanding. The Moltbot story is a perfect example. Thousands of people gave an autonomous AI tool access to their computers, their passwords, their payment information, because a few viral videos told them to. Within days, security researchers found hundreds of these systems exposed to the open internet with no protection. A security researcher proved they could inject malicious code into Moltbot’s system and have it spread to users in seven countries within eight hours.

Speed without discernment is a massive liability that nobody can afford. This has to be learned properly, through a framework that helps you understand what AI should handle and what it should never touch. That foundation needs to be in place before the pace makes it impossible to learn carefully.

The Bigger Picture Nobody Is Naming

There’s a concept called the singularity. If you haven’t heard that word before, it refers to the point where AI improves itself faster than humans can keep up with, and the world on the other side looks fundamentally different from the world before it. It was theoretical for decades. It is not theoretical anymore. We are watching the early stages of it right now.

What happened in January, AI writing its own code, AI building products in a week and a half that would have taken teams months, AI operating autonomously across your computer and your browser and your financial accounts, that is the curve bending.

And here is what sits heavy on me. This moment is going to create a divide. The haves and the have nots of the next generation will be decided by this. Not by talent or education. By whether people understood what was happening early enough to position themselves and their families on the right side of it.

The people who learn to work with AI wisely and ethically, who build systems and skills now while the window is open, will thrive. They will have leverage and capacity and provision that compounds year after year. The people who ignore it, or who engage with it recklessly, without discernment, without a framework, without understanding what they’re handing over, will find themselves in a world that moved past them. And the distance between those two groups is going to be staggering. I’m talking about a reality that makes The Hunger Games look like Disneyland. That’s where unchecked power consolidation without ethics leads. History tells us that every single time.

I walk with Christ and I see this through a lens that most people in the AI space don’t even have. I believe we are in a moment of profound consequence. Not just economically. Spiritually. The systems being built right now will shape how people access information, earn income, make decisions, and understand truth for the next century and beyond. If the people of God are asleep during the most significant technological shift in human history, we will have abdicated our responsibility to steward what we’ve been given.

Sitting on the sidelines right now is abdication. Understand what’s happening, position yourself wisely, protect your family, and build with the kind of discernment that only comes from being anchored in something that doesn’t shift with the technology.

I’ll have much more to say on this. But this is real. The timing matters. And so does what you do with it.

The Window Is Open. It Won’t Stay Open.

If you are building something online and you do not have a foundational understanding of AI right now, you are behind. Not fatally behind. But behind in a way that compounds against you every month unless you do something about it.

You can still learn this with intention instead of panic. You can still build systems that are grounded and ethical rather than throwing AI at everything and hoping for the best. But that window is not indefinite. What I watched happen in January told me the timeline just compressed again. And I adjusted everything I’m doing because of it.

This is real urgency. Not manufactured. Not designed to manipulate you. The pace of development is genuinely accelerating, and the people who move now will have a significant, compounding advantage over the people who don’t. That is simply the truth of where we are.

Your Move

Two things.

First, if you haven’t attended the AI Revolution Secrets training, register for the next one now. Not next week. Not when you have time. Now. It’s free. It gives you the foundational understanding of AI, how it’s reshaping work and income, and how to start using it responsibly. Without that foundation, everything else I teach will be harder to absorb. And as things accelerate, you need that base.

Register for AI Revolution Secrets here

Second, join me live.

I’m hosting a paid masterclass called The Acceleration Window: What Changed in AI Last Week That Will Decide Who Makes Money Online. A focused, honest briefing on what January’s developments actually mean for people building online, why the next six months will move faster than anything we’ve seen, and exactly what you need to be doing right now to position yourself ahead of the curve instead of behind it.

$29. February 6 at 8pm Eastern / February 7 at 12pm Sydney (AEDT).

If you’ve been putting this off, this is the nudge. If the cost of waiting just became real to you, this is the room to be in.

Register for The Acceleration Window

The landscape changed last month. The question is what you’re going to do about it.

I already know what I’m doing.