I wrote my MSc on The Metaverse. Learning to built VR stuff was fun, but a complete waste of time. There was precisely zero utility in having gotten in early.

Perhaps there are some things for which it is sensible to be on the cutting edge. I took part in a vaccine trial because I thought it might personally benefit me and, hopefully, humanity.

But I’m struggling to think of anyone who has earned anything more than bragging rights by being first. Some early investors made money - but an equal and opposite number lost money. For every HTML 2.0 you might have tried, you were just as likely to have got stuck in the dead-end of Flash.

There are a 16,000 new lives being born every hour. They’re all starting with a fairly blank slate. Are you genuinely saying that they’ll all be left behind because they didn’t learn your technology in utero?

No. That’s obviously nonsense.

It is 100% OK to wait and see if something is actually useful.

Source: I’m OK being left behind, thanks! – Terence Eden’s Blog

This is wisdom and lived experience at play. Especially the part of the author doing their graduate thesis on the Metaverse.

But, wait - did you not say that “it’s time to tinker” pangu?

I did and it’s not mutually exclusive to also waiting it out. There are going to be different types of people seeking different things in their life. I like tinkering. The author might too. However, what they are talking about is the whole hearted acceptance of AI as their lord and savior and their rejection of that thesis. Which is fair.