AI CANNOT REPLACE ME - Feb 2026

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I speak German, Spanish, and English.
French speaking countries aren't exactly my forte, but I get by. I’m somewhat fluent in Italian and, to my ears, Portuguese will always just sound like a drunk Spaniard.
This linguistic cocktail means I don’t just travel, I move like a local through the Americas, Australia, most of Europe, and Africa.
Case in point: Fresh out of my Master studies, I found myself helping the Egyptian government build the initial stages of their New Administrative Capital.
I nearly moved to Cairo. I flew back and forth 20x navigating between Western Ceo's and the Egyptian military / government representatives.
I even learned the basics of written and spoken Arabic just to keep up. Though the Egyptians laughed at me, because I studied the wrong 'Arabic accent' I broke the ice. Sadly, most of my Arabic has faded into the Cairo dust by now.
That experience taught me something AI will never be able to replicate: There are certain unwritten codes that, if respected, allow you to be the bridge between other humans. Someone all sides feel respected by.
Call it becoming "Swiss". This is power. Knowledge is power and both combined are a superpower. I’m writing this to remind myself that AI isn't replacing me anytime soon.
Here are some other weird trips I made that led me to investments, business, or other ventures:
I went horseback riding in Kazakhstan, where we randomly visited abandoned soviet gold mines, I took home some simple probes and had them analysed. Long story short the gold grade was great, we had a powerful local friend, so we established a consortium of investors.
I went to play polo in Uruguay followed by a road trip where we stayed at an Eucalyptus farm. A lovely, rural farm where we had no electricity; we had to chop wood to heat water and cooked what we gathered from the land for weeks. I ended up investing in the young owners farm, who until today generates cash and pays me a dividend.
An LLM can’t go Europe maxxing, it's bound to code like a cage it cannot leave. It can’t read the tension in a room full of degens, it can't get tipsy in a Lisbon bar with a founder, and it can’t build a city in the desert through sheer force of will.
Code is impressive, but it hasn’t lived.
I have! 🤌🤌