Why AI Could Be Better for Plumbers than Programmers

Today on the AI Daily Brief, why AI could matter more for plumbers than for programmers. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. Alright, friends. Quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, Rackspace Technologies, robots and pencils, Blitsy, and Superintelligent. To get an ad free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Ad free is just $3 a month. To learn about sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsors@aidailybrief.ai. And, of course, dailybrief.ai is where you can find out everything else about this ecosystem of projects that we have as well. Now today, we're exploring a theme which I think is going to be a growing topic throughout the year. In short, it's what sort of impact AI is going to have on blue collar workers, both in terms of swelling their ranks as well as potentially changing the nature of how they run their businesses. This is a topic that is growing as a focus, particularly as we get farther into the AI change and we start to get better glimpses of how AI might actually impact the jobs market especially in the short term. To be clear, I think we still have absolutely no idea what things are gonna look like in the future. But big transitional period with a lot of change during it even if it's not the end state. Now this is, of course, a long read slash big think episode, and the specific catalyst for this was an op ed in Fortune magazine by David Haycock. David is the CEO and founder of Filterbuy, which is a direct to consumer air filtration company. Filterbuy generates over $1,000,000,000 in revenue, has more than 7,000,000 customers, and employs over a thousand people. The company was also fully bootstrapped. Now David himself has an interesting path. He started his career as an options trader at Goldman Sachs, but in 2012, he left Wall Street to take over the family business, which was this filter manufacturing business. So the piece is titled, and keep in mind this was written by an editor, I guarantee, I'm a CEO who grew a boring air filter business into a $260,000,000 company, and AI is going to help blue collar everyday people just like me. Now this is just the latest in this theme that I've seen. So first, let's read this piece. It's not all that long, and then we'll get into the broader context. David writes, when I was 13, I had a side hustle building websites for local businesses. This was the nineteen nineties. Building a site meant weeks on a dial up connection, hand coding HTML line by line, and breaking layouts because you missed a single character. If I made $2,000 in a summer, it was because I gave up nearly every waking hour to do it. My income …