Hey everyone! We get a LOT of new members every day, and many of you jump in with enthusiasm… and then immediately get swarmed by: • bots with stock profile photos • “DM me for mentorship” sales funnels • vague success promises • people who don’t even use AI but want to pitch things This post is for the real humans who genuinely want to learn, build, and grow with AI. Here’s your starter roadmap 👇 1️⃣ First rule: Learn to spot bots & funnels This community is incredible — when you know how to filter it. Red flags to watch for: • “Drop YES and I’ll help you make income fast” • “DM me” within 2 messages • Lifestyle promises (“I made 20k in 2 days!”) • Zero real builds, zero screenshots, zero proof • Over-friendly messages from accounts created 1 week ago Legit members don’t chase you. They build in public. ⸻ 2️⃣ Second rule: Follow people who show their work If someone doesn’t post: • what they built • how they built it • what went wrong • what improved their workflow …they’re not someone you need to learn from. I personally follow only those who provide actual value: builders, testers, thinkers, problem-solvers. Start small. Follow intentionally, not emotionally. ⸻ 3️⃣ Third rule: Start with ONE person’s breadcrumbs This community hides its best knowledge in the comments, not just the posts. Pick one skilled member and go through: • their posts • their comments under other posts • their replies to questions You’ll find frameworks, prompts, thinking patterns, debugging strategies, and logic you can actually use. If you want a beginner → advanced path, my posts follow that structure: starting simple and getting progressively more technical. ⸻ 4️⃣ Fourth rule: Don’t hoard — apply Don’t be a collector. Don’t fill your Google Drive with 200 prompts you’ll never touch. Instead: • learn one thing • apply it instantly • build something small • break it • fix it • repeat This is the fastest way to grow your actual skillset. ⸻ 5️⃣ Fifth rule: Show your journey

Hey Folks, Rick here again! It's 3:30 AM, and I'm still up working on my AI startup. My Twilio VOIP A2P Campaign Registration has finally been approved by all the carriers! Now I can use my business phone number for SMS lead generation and make it interact with VAPI, my future Voice AI agent, and BREVO, my Email CRM platform. Woof! It's all technical, but I love rolling with it. A Dinosaur with Tricks 🦖 As I mentioned before, I'm 52 years old—a dinosaur with a few tricks up my sleeve. I studied Architecture 28 years ago, built $20–30-million-dollar high-rises in Chicago, and have been a Project Manager on and off. For half of my life, I've been an entrepreneur with partial success and many failures. I've started three companies, owned Real Estate, and then lost close to a million dollars when the Real Estate market crashed. I filed for bankruptcy once. That’s just the life of an entrepreneur and risk-taker. Why? That’s just how I'm built. I love launching and starting small companies with simple operations. No, I never want to be like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, or Elon Musk. I just want to be creative, use my Architectural background, and have fun with what I do and how I run my startups. Focusing on the System ⚙️ So here I am again, launching the fourth business in my lifespan, and it won't be my last before my last breath! On my last post, I spoke about the importance of creating a system for your AI operations and not being so focused on your product development yet. Keep in mind there is no exact way to build a company. However, in Architecture and Design, we do have a system that goes from conceptual phase, schematic design, design development to construction completion. IT software Ops developers call it iteration, if that sounds correct! As some of you know, I don't have the IT background a few of you might have. My technical expertise comes from Architecture, Engineering, and Design. Those are my strengths, along with some sales in that space. Tonight, I was grinding on my flow chart and brainstorming with Tommi, my AI. I designed a system that's a mini-CRM to work inside of VAPI and BREVO, setting up Groups, Attributes, and Segmentation for all my future subscribers on my landing pages, where they call my Voice AI agent. I’ve never done this EVER in my life, and I can't wait to see it operate, work, and captures leads in a high-tech format without me being involved at all. Remember I said focus on Progress over Perfection—just get things done and roll with it. Not kidding about that!

Within the SAME chatgpt/claude/deepseek conversation, run these prompts in this exact order: Prompt #1: Based on everything you know about me, what is the fastest way for me to make <INCOME GOAL>? Limit to 1 offer and 1 channel. Prompt #2: Who is the #1 person I should learn from to succeed? Prompt #3: Pretend you are that person. Create a simple 90-day action plan that needs <$1,000 upfront and has a 95% chance of success. List the top 3 risks.

Hey everyone! I’m Stacey I run a Shopify dropshipping ecommerce business, and over time I’ve built a lifestyle of comfort, flexibility, and freedom. I joined AI Advantage because I love what Tony & Dean created here a space where AI becomes clear, practical, and a true unfair advantage for entrepreneurs like us. I’m here to connect, share what I know, and help others grow especially anyone ready to increase their income before the year ends. If you’re serious about leveling up and want to learn more, drop “YES” in the comments. Your future is created by the actions you take today not tomorrow. Let’s grow together.

📝 TL;DR A new long form essay argues that generative AI is quietly hollowing out universities from the inside. Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to teach and grade, and the result is a degree with less and less real thinking behind it. 🧠 Overview A professor at a U.S. public university has written a blistering critique of how AI is being integrated into higher education. He argues that universities are turning into “Chatversities” where students outsource thinking to AI, administrators partner with AI vendors, and everyone pretends real learning is still happening. The piece frames this not as a tech problem, but as a deeper crisis of incentives, corporatization, and what education is actually for. 📜 The Announcement The article describes what is already happening on the ground. Large university systems are signing campus wide deals for “edu” versions of chatbots, while faculty are encouraged to redesign courses around AI tools. At the same time, many students are using the same tools to generate essays, complete assignments, and even cheat on tests. The author argues that this “cheating AI” ecosystem is turning higher education into a high priced credential machine with very little genuine cognitive development happening underneath. ⚙️ How It Works → Students offload the hard thinking They paste prompts into AI, get passable essays or solutions, lightly edit, and submit. Over time they practice “prompting” instead of analysis, memory, or writing. → Universities join the AI arms raceInstitutions partner with AI companies for teaching tools, then also buy AI detectors to police cheating, creating a loop where tech firms profit at every step. → Faculty are quietly pushed to automate their own work Overloaded teachers are nudged to use AI to write lectures, slides, assignments, and feedback. That saves time but also erodes craft, care, and the teacher’s own voice.