Two types of AI users I keep seeing. One is building real income leverage. The other is building dependency.

Not preaching here. Just a pattern that shows up clearly once you watch enough people try to build income with AI tools. Type 1: Uses AI to complete the task Prompts for the output. Ships it. Gets paid. Never reviews why the output worked or did not. Cannot replicate quality without rerunning the same prompt. When a client asks a specific question about the work, they get stuck. Six months in: high output volume. Flat skill depth. Rate is capped because they cannot charge for expertise they cannot nstrate or explain.