Jim VandeHei

But also don't believe the one interaction you had with ChatGPT where it gave you a stupid answer or it hallucinated.

If you have $20, download the Claude app, Opus 4.5 or 4.6.

It's $20.

You can cancel after a month.

Spend one hour on it, not just asking it a simple question, but think about something you would like to build.

And don't just like, don't just say it once and give up, like really work with it.

Like try to be very, give it context, explain what you're trying to build, have it ask you questions so that you could flesh it out.

And then you'll start to see the magic.

You'll start to see why people aren't sleeping in San Francisco, why every investment dollar is going into AI and AI adjacent companies, why people like you and I are up late at night.

building things.

And I'll give you a good example.

I'm being 100% sincere, no false humility.

I am a tech dope.

I know nothing about coding.

It's been the biggest frustration in running media companies that I don't know Ruby on Rails or Python.

I can't really fact check whether somebody's good at their job or not.

And just in the last month, especially with this explosion of Quad...

I've built a half dozen different prototype apps that are high functioning in work.

I'm building one right now that basically if you tell me what you do, how long you've been doing it, and in what industry you're in, it's going to teach you how to code or how to prompt the machine the way that the most sophisticated people are prompting Claude or Gemini or ChatGPT so that you can get the most out of it.

I was able to build that in about a half an hour.