if you want a tip put 50 bucks on #6 in the fifth race😁

Doug — this lines up with what I keep seeing. A lot of people are uneasy about the future right now, and headlines like these make that easy. What I take from your rundown is more practical than scary. The money going into OpenAI and Anthropic means these tools are not a fad, so the skills you build now will still matter. And the jobs showing up are simple, real ones: write a prompt that actually works, set up a basic customer-service helper, or get a newsletter and follow-up running without doing it by hand every time. That is the automation work I care about. It sits beside the job people already do. It does not ask them to wait for a perfect platform, and it does not mean building a custom AI operating system that dies when the next model drops. The Meta “describe what you want and get a little app” direction is interesting. I still think the durable layer is the workflow itself — the automation companies that already run those pipes, like n8n, Zapier, Make and others like them. You can swap the brain later. You should not have to rebuild the plumbing. Your note on the open hacking tools is the other half of it. Do not paste customer info, passwords, or private plant data into a tool unless you know where it is going. Appreciate the Saturday rundown. Johnny

Thanks Doug. Forty-five seconds goes quickly! Great room, great people, and the one-to-ones start next week. The plan stays simple: free AI training for learners who usually get left out, backed by local business. Use AI. Keep one i open. Couldn't have done it without my good mate Doogie!!👊

Glen — sorry I missed this. Appreciate you asking. The first practical thing I want the learners to be able to do is use AI on something real from their own day — a message, a bit of paperwork, a follow-up — so it isn’t just a lesson, it’s a skill they can repeat. The rest builds from there.

The bit that stuck with me is AI that actually does the task, not another tool that just gives advice. That’s what small business owners ask about — less “tell me what to do,” more “make the follow-ups and the paperwork move.” And you’re right about not chasing the newest, priciest thing. The simple, cheap setups already cover a lot of that.

Clean loop — headlines in, post ready, thirty seconds to publish. I’ll be interested to see how the tone holds up over the week. Easy to tweak if it starts to drift.👍