You know those projects we never start?

We find them interesting, sometimes even important, grandiose or even epic. Then we look more closely: the time required, the skills to bring together, the funding to raise, then everything already waiting on the desk…

We put them away in a drawer, telling ourselves "tomorrow", "this weekend", "some day soon" and, for most of them, there they stay… forever!

That drawer, which ends up becoming a chest of drawers, is one of the reasons (but far from the only one) I am so enthusiastic about the increasingly widespread access to artificial intelligence and its incredible progress.

Inside a company, it is fairly easy to count the hours saved on an existing activity. You can compare the time needed to produce a document, write code or analyze a file.

But there is something much harder to measure: the value of a project that had never been allowed to exist.

And yet that is part of what interests me most!

A small outfit can have an idea for a product, a service or a concept, and lack the means required to explore its feasibility seriously.

A person can identify a very real problem in their daily life and give up in the face of the amount of work required to build a solution.

An old file can contain something precious, but demand weeks of research that nobody can reasonably devote to it…

But everything is changing: when the cost of that exploration falls far enough, the barriers come down.

You can design a prototype, check a hypothesis, discover that you were wrong, then try another way. Even a failure can become acceptable when it no longer consumes all the resources available.

It is in that same spirit that I am currently building several projects such as Elora, the Beacon Protocol, Life Override, or a completely crazy project that flirts with the limits of the laws of physics.

AI expands what is possible exponentially: it lets me turn my intuitions, my dreams, my hopes, or just a wacky idea, into something more "tangible", which I can examine, test, develop and perhaps… make real.

So yes, there is still work to do, physical constraints to face, hard decisions to make and mistakes to correct.

A mediocre idea will never become extraordinary because AI agents were assigned to it. But one thing is certain: the one that stays in a drawer has no chance of becoming anything more…

So, when I think about what this technology can change, not only in my professional activities but in my life, I want to reopen every drawer: re-examine those projects that seemed too demanding, too time-consuming or too costly, and perhaps give them… a new life or, at least, a new chance to exist!

I find it quite extraordinary to be living in a time when it becomes possible to reopen doors that we ourselves had sealed shut forever.

I would not go back for anything in the world!