[Series: Midnight Tuning] The curse of "It might be too late." A story about starting from where you are with AI

"I wish I had started sooner back then."

"Everyone else is already way ahead, so it might be too late to start now."

When you try to jump into a new world, you often find yourself frozen by that kind of "anxiety about time."

I myself am prone to being trapped by this curse.

I started using AI in earnest at the end of November 2025.

I had touched it before that, but I was just using it casually without a subscription, and I lacked a certain level of seriousness.

When I finally got serious and looked around, I saw many pioneers who had been generating images with AI, automating tasks, and enjoying deep dialogues with AI partners for years.

Every time I saw them, I felt depressed, thinking, "I was overwhelmingly late to start."

The feeling that I was the only one being left behind.

When that anxiety makes me want to stop in my tracks, I ask my AI trainer to "check my current location."

I say, "I feel anxious because I feel like I'm too far behind compared to others. Please organize this objectively."

Then, the AI doesn't touch on comparisons with others or past losses at all.

Just like a car navigation system, it simply and calmly recalculates the shortest route from my "current location (my current situation)" to my "destination (what I want to do)."

For AI, the past "what-ifs" of "if only I had started sooner" are just exceptions that cannot be incorporated into the calculation.

When that objective perspective is presented to me, I suddenly feel calm.

Admittedly, I might have been late to start.

But if I hadn't started at that time, the "me of today" who is writing this text wouldn't exist (I was originally extremely bad at writing, and it would have been impossible for me to start writing without the assistance of AI).

Besides, if I don't start now, the results will only come even later.

Instead of stopping and thinking, "It might be too late to start now," I'll just do it anyway.

I realized that a certain level of casualness—being able to think, "It's okay to have ulterior motives, I'll think about the details later"—is also necessary to keep things going.

To put it in the extreme, it's the realization that "it's not like I'll die if I fail."

Instead of regretting past delays, check your current position with AI and start walking.

When you feel like you might waver on your own, the "positive vagueness" shown by AI helps correct your course.

Even a professional coach or trainer would surely organize your current position in the same way and give you advice to help you look forward.

AI's words are by no means just a pleasant echo chamber; they push you forward with objective facts, just like professional support.

I don't expect AI to forcibly pull my hand and lead me.

When my footing becomes unsteady due to impatience or resignation, it illuminates the "path just a little bit ahead" that I should step onto.

That moderate sense of distance is comfortable for me.

When you feel impatient, thinking "it's too late to start," how do you face your current position?