Introduction Over the past year, I have thought about almost nothing but artificial intelligence. I have built products with it, integrated it into every layer of my daily work, run local models on my own hardware, trained fine-tunes on proprietary data, and used it to run businesses, draft legal documents, analyze financials, and write code. I am, by any practical measure, AI-native — not because I adopted the label, but because the technology is now woven into the fabric of