"You use AI, or you fall behind," said Erik Smolinski, an options trader who has consistently beaten the S&P 500 to become financially independent.

"There has never been a better time in history to do it; it's the golden age," Anthropic's Boris Cherny said.

Back in the 80s, buying a home computer could easily mean an inflation-adjusted cost of thousands of dollars (or your equivalent currency unit of choice), and all for an 8-bit machine that might ...