David Malan

Like all of that is valuable, whether or not we have robots doing work for us in our future, I think.

Oh, lately, that absolutely seems to be the case.

And that was preceded, I think, over the past few years, really, by the downturn in tech offerings.

I mean, we were seeing this in the recruiting pipeline on campus where there were just fewer opportunities and there was less of an appetite among some of the big tech companies to even bother coming to campus if they just didn't have many opportunities.

entry level roles for students.

And that was before GPT and similar tooling was sort of omnipresent.

So AI has only exacerbated, I think, that concern.

But I think what we're going to see if we sort of extrapolate out is that there's going to be these ebbs and flows over the years, much like we've seen or the pendulum swinging each different way, whatever, whichever metaphor you prefer.

Just as humans have a tendency, I do think, especially in tech, to overreact to things both positively and negatively.

And while AI is absolutely here to stay, I do think it's going to become equivalent in our minds to just what technology is.

AI is a nice sort of buzzword and way to distinguish it from some of the more deterministic or...

predictable outcomes that like technology to date has maybe had.

But, you know, I think back even over my 19 years with CS50 and, you know, AR and VR was to be all the rage.

And then we had blockchain and Bitcoin and Google Glass even like excited the imagination like no other technology at the time.

And all of these things are still with us in some form or some future incarnation.

And especially with blockchain and Bitcoin, like there's some resiliency there and AR and VR are still very omnipresent in games.

But

It's just been fascinating to watch the world, the tech world, especially the VC world, sort of react and overreact habitually to these kinds of things until we sort of find a healthier medium where people appreciate the real value and not just the opportunistic value of it all.

Yeah, I think it depends on your goals.

I think there's absolutely value of places like Harvard, really, because of that credentialing.