AI Won’t Replace Strategy

Yeah, of course.

So, the AI Hackathon is something that I help with every year.

Shout out my friend Brent Weis for putting me on.

Um-

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... it's such a blast every year.

But essentially what we do is at Prosper and other various industry shows, uh, we will go in and run an interactive contest, right, where there will be two or three master prompts or ideas, and then table captains will orchestrate a team who will then use nothing but AI to get said prompt done.

Um, very, very educational, and you can imagine, you know, as somebody who is not an advanced AI user, how quickly you can learn about AI's capabilities with a 45 or an hour exercise like that.

That's incredible.

And the hands-on keyboard aspect, I think really helps escalate that, 'cause I'm guilty of this.

I scroll LinkedIn, and I see what everyone else is doing, and I get so incredibly overwhelmed.

I'm like, "How? I could never do that." In reality, once you dive in and just figure it out, it's quite the unlock.

You're like, "Anyone can do this." And I think that's really powerful for, you know, a lot of our team members.

There's a very low barrier to entry when it comes to AI utilization.

Now, again, if you're gonna build a full-scale product, vibe coding's not enough.

But for a lot of the things that we've been looking at, I think AI unlocks a few different levers that anyone on the team can immediately start pulling.

What are the directions of AI that you're most excited about and that you are really making sure to integrate into our Better University?