July 29, 2026
Prompt and Circumstance
Sell Your AI Skills?
Turn your know-how into an AI product? The comments are already side-eyeing the pitch
TLDR: The article argues you can sell your hard-earned decision-making as an AI helper instead of another course or ebook. Commenters immediately challenged whether that’s truly valuable or just something a free chatbot could imitate, with one joke turning the whole idea into a roast.
The pitch sounds seductive: stop selling courses nobody finishes and start selling your actual judgment as an AI helper people can use in the moment they’re working. Instead of making someone sit through lessons or read a long guide, the idea is to bottle the part of your expertise that catches mistakes, spots patterns, and helps people make better calls on the job. In plain English, it’s less “buy my class” and more “buy my brain in checklist form.”
But the comment section? Oh, it was not ready to clap on cue. One skeptical reader basically said: nice idea, now prove people can’t just copy the description, paste it into ChatGPT or another bot, and get a bargain-bin version for free. That’s the central drama here: is this valuable expertise, or just fancy prompt-writing with better marketing? Another commenter twisted the whole concept into comedy gold by asking whether they could sell a skill that detects writing that sounds suspiciously like Claude, one of the popular AI chatbots. Brutal.
So the real mood is a mix of curiosity, hustle energy, and hard-eye skepticism. Yes, the article says judgment is rare and worth paying for. But the crowd wants receipts. If your “AI skill” can be rebuilt in five minutes by a decent chatbot, the internet has already decided it’s not a product — it’s a dare. And that tension is exactly why people are watching this debate.
Key Points
- •The article argues that AI skills can package expertise directly into workflows so buyers can use judgment during work instead of studying a course or ebook.
- •It recommends identifying skill ideas from repeated review or audit tasks that already have clear inputs, outputs, and known failure modes.
- •The article says valuable AI skills should be narrow and task-specific, rather than broad offerings such as general marketing help.
- •It emphasizes that the main value lies in judgment: decision rules, evidence thresholds, edge cases, false-positive handling, and knowing when to ask for context.
- •It advises packaging skills with explicit evaluation criteria, examples of acceptable and unacceptable outputs, and supporting files only when they improve actionability.