Mod rebuilt expensive SaaS tools like Campaign Monitor and Quicken using AI, slashing his annual costs from $7,000 to about $150. He also created a private social platform called The Good Place for his paying members. Mod believes AI empowers writers to build audiences through custom tools, but he personally uses AI only as a research assistant, not for writing, to preserve his creative process. He emphasizes the importance of tech-free mornings for deep thinking and resists the temptation to 'mainline' AI constantly. Mod argues against anthropomorphizing AI, praising Apple's Siri for treating it as a practical tool. He reflects on humanity's fragile place in an AI future, suggesting our purpose may be to create a training set for AI, which he views as a miracle rather than a sad ending.