--- title: Pivoting in AI: Too Late or Not? | daily.dev description: A candid take on whether it's too late to pivot into the AI space. The speaker initially believed that anyone not building AI products since 2022 would be too... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/pivoting-in-ai-too-late-or-not--jpv9kw654 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Pivoting in AI: Too Late or Not? | daily.dev og:description: A candid take on whether it's too late to pivot into the AI space. The speaker initially believed that anyone not building AI products since 2022 would be too... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/pivoting-in-ai-too-late-or-not--jpv9kw654 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jPV9kW654.png og:image:alt: Pivoting in AI: Too Late or Not? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Pivoting in AI: Too Late or Not? **[Ardan Labs \(YouTube\)](https://daily.dev/sources/ardanlabs-youtube)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A candid take on whether it's too late to pivot into the AI space. The speaker initially believed that anyone not building AI products since 2022 would be too far behind to compete today, but acknowledges a counterexample of someone who successfully built new UIs and polished a product within a year. The conclusion is that pivoting into AI is very difficult now unless you have significant funding and can move extremely fast, since product polish takes time. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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