#185 - Fernando Nikolić - AI, One-Person Companies & The New Economic Elite

**Fernando Nikolić** (0:00)
I run a company now, and I'm the only person in the company, the only human in the company.

**Peter McCormack** (0:05)
I'm so deep in it, and while I'm in it, it's so profound, that I don't even know what it all means, but I know everything's going to change. It took me 11 days to build that. I used to have an agency to build this stuff. It would have taken me, I don't know, where I'm at now, it would have taken 15 people a year and a half and a million pounds, but I built it on my own, no help, in two weeks.

**Fernando Nikolić** (0:27)
The value of paying for that to make somebody else do that job for you has gone down to zero.

**Peter McCormack** (0:32)
What does a company look like in five years?
I don't know what this all means. What does democracy look like? What does money look like? If we go into this exponential AI growth where there's a massive amount of productivity but it's all unevenly distributed to a wealthy class, I don't know what that means for everyone else.

**Fernando Nikolić** (0:57)
All these monopolies are done and we are now in the middle of that time where all of these things are just coming crashing down but we don't know what to build. How do we avoid the permanent underclass?

**Peter McCormack** (1:12)
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I've definitely got the AI psychosis. I'd say about six months ago, I'd lost my mojo. Couldn't be bothered to work, I was doing four or five hours a day. I reckon I'm doing no less than 15 hours a day for the last month, and I had one day where I worked 19 hours, dude.
Yeah, I'm so deep in, I don't even want to call it vibe coding, because I think that's an insult to what I'm doing. I'm so deep in it, and while I'm in it, it's so profound that I don't even know what it all means, but I know everything is going to change.

**Fernando Nikolić** (2:19)
What was the catalyst that got you to go really deep? Was it like a specific model or was it one use case that you saw, oh, that blew your mind and then you went on the rabbit hole? What was the catalyst?

**Peter McCormack** (2:29)
Somebody said to me if you played around with Claude, because I was chatting with EPT, I played with Perplexity, I played with Grok, I used them for different use cases, and someone said, just play with Claude. So I put a prompt in and it popped up for an answer of multiple choice. So I was like, oh, that's cool.
Why doesn't Chachi BT do that? Then I had to do another thing. I was trying to filter some data and I said, can you do a multiple choice, but can you do it with graphics to show me this? It did. I was like, huh, that's cool.
Then I was like, can you help me build a to do list? It did. Popped up this HTML to do list. I was like, okay, I need a column for each business. I want priority. I just built a to do list. Funny thing was I played with that to do list for two days, taking stuff off. Idiot here didn't realize there's no database behind it when I closed Claude and got rid of it. That was the moment I was like, what can you do with this? Then the last month, I have built so much stuff.

**Fernando Nikolić** (3:29)
Love it. Dude, tell me about it.

**Peter McCormack** (3:32)
I mean, I'm here to interview you, but I've built a system for the football club. I've built a system for the podcast. I've built a system which tracks tweets by politicians and grays their truthfulness. I've built a delivery tracker that tracks my deliveries and tells me when they come in. I'm just building nonstop stuff, but these systems I've built are huge. The one for the football club is a system for manage all the operations, a team data system, a website with a content management system, email delivery system, inventory management. It's like everything.