Let That Bake: Why I'm Starting a YouTube Channel About AI While Making Cupcakes

There's a tsunami on the horizon.

I've been a software engineer for a while, and I can feel the ground shifting. Not in a vague, "technology is changing" kind of way. AI is coming for my job. Maybe not this year, but in the next five? Most definitely. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't thinking about it constantly.

And the weird thing is, I'm lowkey also kind of amazed. Like, I truly feel like I'm in the future. The pace of this stuff is genuinely unreal.

So I'm starting a channel

It's called Let That Bake and the domain is letthatbake.ai because why not.

The idea is simple. I bake desserts, cakes, cupcakes, decorating, all that peaceful stuff, and while I do it I talk about AI. The singularity, automation, what happens to human work, what the future might look like. Hopefully people focus on the calm baking and not me talking about my existential crisis.

The name is doing a few things at once. There's the obvious baking. There's the slang, like let that idea sit and marinate. And there's a quiet nod to the thing we're actually talking about, models training, futures forming, everything still in the oven.

Why baking though

Those who know me know I bake (Instagram @suyaneats, shameless plug). Honestly baking is the right vibe for this kind of conversation. There's something about piping frosting or layering a cake that slows you down in a good way. That pace gives the ideas room to breathe. (I learned this year that I need to embrace boredom, apparently that helps save my now very short attention span.)

And there's something real about being in my kitchen talking about this stuff versus being some talking head in front of a ring light. I'm just a person making a birthday cake, thinking out loud about whether the career I've spent years building is going to look completely different in a year.

Why now

Because I'm genuinely at a crossroads and I think a lot of people are too.

I'm a software engineer who understands the technology well enough to know the concern is real. I'm not dooming out about it but I'm not dismissing it either. I'm just trying to figure out what comes next, and I want to do that somewhere other than my own head.

Most AI content I see goes all in on one side. It's either going to be incredible or it's going to be terrible. It's either Effective Altruism (EA) or Effective Accelerationism (e/acc). But some people, including me, are somewhere in the middle. Genuinely unsure. Kind of excited, kind of nervous, mostly just trying to keep up.

That's the space I want to make content in.

This channel is me processing it out loud, building something with my hands while I figure out what I'm building with my career.

Let that bake.

First video coming soon. Follow along at letthatbake.ai