Comment by pedalpete
13 days ago
I'm sure I'm not the only one confused by this, but can you give details on why you decided that a course was necessary to learn this new way of working with AI?
Maybe it's more of a alpha thing, but with millions using chatbots every day, was it not possible to develop a UI?
It's not just about adoption, who has the time to spend 5 weeks learning a new tool? Particularly when you're competing with the existing tools?
The course is about a methodology, not a product. It's the ideas Eric Ries and I have been working on for decades. 5 weeks is a crash course that can only touch on the ideas. And it covers learning data structures and algorithms, foundations of web programming, system administration, startup creating, and much more.
It's really a rapid "how do to <x> the solveit way" for a variety of x. Each of those x is likely to become a full course in the future.
(We actually built the tool for ourselves, and only decided to make it publicly available when we realised how much it's helping us. We're a PBC so our mission is not entirely financial. We're not trying to compete with existing tools, but provide an alternative direction.)
We made the tool, and that will eventually be available on its own. But the method requires some discipline and 'unlearning'. It's very hard to show someone an AI tool and not have them treat it just like ChatGPT/Claude/... - that's the part that takes the time, and having a community of people working through different examples and case studies together is a lot more motivating for this than just staring at an empty prompt box :)
That's a good explanation, but I think the expectation when someone says they are "launching something" that is an antidote to AI fatigue, it may be better to say it's a course and a methodology. You aren't launching a tool.
I think if you give it a try, you'll be surprised. It is a course and a tool and a way of thinking. We often struggle to find concise language to describe something that is fundamentally new. Maybe after you've tried it, you'll be able to help us explain it better.
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