Wanted to share my experience since I couldn't find much discussion before enrolling. I watched it together with my roommate. Where it fell short for me: - Depth didn't match the price. Most of the core concepts (Plan/Execute/Clear, Ralph loops, AGENTS.md) are already covered in free YouTube content from other Claude Code creators. I was hoping the paid course would go significantly deeper. It mostly didn't. - Examples are narrow. Nearly everything is demonstrated on the instructor's own course-builder app. Ralph loops in particular are shown working great on a greenfield side project he controls end-to-end. I wanted to see these patterns applied to messier, existing production codebases, which is what the marketing emphasizes. But there was a string gap between the marketing and the course - Q&A didn't go deep. Office hours answers felt surface-level and didn't really show the model being pushed on hard edge cases. I was hoping for more "here's where this breaks and how I debug it" and got more restatement of the lesson content. - Matt is barely pushing the boundaries of Claude Code. His /grill-me skill is just a rehash of what a Claude Code Anthropic employee shared many months prior. It's all repurposed. No original ideas. If you're already using Claude Code daily and watching the YouTube scene, I don't think there's $795 of new material here. This is honestly like $30 of material. My roommate feels scammed and will be getting a refund.

I joined AI Automation Society Plus expecting something substantially different from what Nate puts out on YouTube for free. What I got was basically the same surface level content, just behind a paywall. If you've watched his videos, you've already seen most of what's inside. Save your $99 a month. The upselling is relentless and honestly the most annoying part of the whole experience. I lost count of how many times I was nudged toward some higher tier offering. At one point he tried to convince me to buy a $10,000 mastermind. Ten thousand dollars. For what? More of the same recycled content with a fancier label? It feels like every interaction is just a funnel to get you to spend more money. The group calls are a joke. Nate regularly shows up late, which is incredibly disrespectful when people are paying monthly for access and carving time out of their schedules. If you're charging premium prices, the bare minimum is showing up on time. The content itself is shallow. Whenever something new drops in the AI space, Nate covers it in the most surface level way possible. There's no depth, no nuance, no real technical understanding. If you're looking for someone who's actually at the cutting edge of this stuff, this isn't it. And that gets to the bigger problem. Nate makes the vast majority of his money teaching people how to build AI automation businesses, not from actually running one himself. It's the classic "those who can't do, teach" situation. Hard to take business advice seriously from someone whose main business is selling you business advice. Then there's the community. I was hoping for a group of serious builders I could learn from and collaborate with. Instead it's mostly complete beginners, which would be fine on its own, but a surprising number of them are constantly trying to sell you their own services or pitch you on some side hustle. It feels spammy and unmoderated. Overall I feel like I wasted my money. There's nothing here you can't find for free on YouTube, including Nate's own channel. Don't fall for the upsell.