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Sleep Feels Like a Waste of Time Right Now. Let Me Explain.

Kyle

Published on May 21, 2026

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Sleep Feels Like a Waste of Time Right Now. Let Me Explain.

I have been wanting to sleep less lately.

Not because I am stressed. Not because business is keeping me up. It is the opposite. I am building things with AI right now that make every hour feel so productive that stepping away feels like a waste.

Whether this a project related to WA, designing a new feature that is going to be integrated into Kre8or, or exploring new (and totally random) ideas. Or whether I am working on personal projects, communications or creating practice plans for coaching. I genuinely do not want to stop.

That pull to keep going is not new for me. Carson and I have had plenty of late nights building Wealthy Affiliate over the years. But this feels different. It truly feels amplified and on a scale we have never seen.

With AI, you are not just grinding through tasks anymore. You are creating at a pace that makes every hour feel like it counts for three...or 100.

I Am Not the Only One Feeling This...

Marc Andreessen, the guy who built the first web browser and now runs one of the most powerful venture firms in Silicon Valley, recently said something that nailed exactly what I have been experiencing.

The opportunity cost of going to sleep is too high because if you go to sleep, you are not with your 20 AI coding agents.

Erik Torenberg, who works closely with Andreessen, gave these people a name. He called them "AI vampires."

They stop sleeping. Bags under their eyes. Completely exhausted. But euphoric. Thrilled with what they are building.

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And it is not just coders. Andreessen said a partner at his firm who had NEVER written a line of code is now building software with AI agents.

The wall between people who build and people who do not is coming down. Fast.

Why This Should Matter to You.

I am not telling you to stop sleeping. That is not the point.

The point is this.

When the people who BUILT these tools cannot stop using them... and when someone like me who has been building online businesses for over two decades feels the same pull... that tells you something about where we are right now.

This is not hype. This is what it feels like when a technology is genuinely changing the game.

Andreessen said programmers using AI are seeing 20x productivity gains. Not 20 percent. Twenty TIMES.

And those gains are showing up everywhere. Writers. Marketers. Business builders who have never touched code.

The Real Cost Is Not Sleep.

The opportunity cost is not about sleeping less.

It is about the hours you are still spending on things manually that AI could handle in minutes.

The content you have not created. The ideas you have not tested. The growth you have not pursued.

An hour of focused work with the right AI tools today can produce what used to take a full day.

That is the real shift. And unlike sleep, that one is entirely in your control.

Have you felt this PULL yet? That moment where you realized just how much more you could get done with AI? Or are you still figuring out where to start? Drop your thoughts below... I think a lot of people here are right on the edge of this and just need to take the first step.

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