Albert Sanchez, a high school developer, replaced his family restaurant's software with code he built himself using AI. He wakes at 5 am to code and cut their monthly costs from hundreds to $90. Curiosity, not a degree, is what matters for building tools today.
I think with one thing that excites me about AI is this ability for now restaurant owners to no longer be dependent on software companies. Where I had this one guy on the show, Albert Sanchez, who wanted to be a software developer when he was in high school. And that was like, that was his dream. His dad opened a restaurant and he became an opening partner in the restaurant, never went to college. Like when it started to like gain traction, he has literally, he wakes up at 5:00 AM. Spends the first 3 hours of his day vibe coding, and he has basically replaced the majority of his, of his subscription models. And he pays like $90 a month for—
The, the new engineer, the new software developer today, the skills that you really, really need is to be curious.
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Great at creative problem solving. Right. And I can't think of 2 traits that better represent restaurant owners and operators.
