An adult hired an AI tutor at $500 per hour to keep up with the relentless pace of AI breakthroughs. The tutor curates the four most interesting developments each week, answers ad-hoc questions, and researches actionable insights. One hour of tutoring saves 8-10 hours of personal effort tracking trends and finding tools.
Why is it that as adults we don't ever go to school, go to class, or have tutors? And so I hired an AI tutor. People are like, what is an AI tutor? And I was like, dude, AI is changing so fast. Literally every 3 weeks there's a new mind-blowing paradigm shift in AI. There's thousands of companies getting funded. There's new models being released. There's new talk that drops, new interview that drops where Sam Altman says this interesting thing. I couldn't possibly keep up with it. So one way is you go read a newsletter or you join maybe a group chat or something like that. But what I decided to do was I basically pay this guy $500 an hour and I say, your job is every week you're going to come to the table and you're going to tell me through 4 of the most interesting things he's seen. And then I usually ask him a question like, hey, I saw people talking about this. What is it? Or Chamath said this thing. I didn't even really understand it. What the hell is he talking about? Or, hey, in my business I have this problem. Is there an AI tool that could actually solve this? And then he'll go do the research and he'll come back to me and he'll answer it. This has been just like such a hack to be smart about AI, but shave my time commitment. Yes, I'm paying this guy $500 for 1 hour of his time, but I'm kind of saving 8 to 10 hours of my time because I now literally don't have to think about it.
