In this YouTube clip, Paul Barnhurst laments the growing pressure to become proficient in AI, likening it to past experiences of "Excel fatigue" and the long‑standing need to learn Regex. He argues that AI represents a seismic shift that could determine whether a business survives the next five years, and expresses a personal resolve to set aside other technical learning in order to become an AI guru.
I wasn't over the Excel fatigue. Regex has been on my list for years and now I've just got to park all of that and become an AI guru. Because we feel like with AI, if we don't get on the train, we're missing out on something that could fundamentally change everything. Did you ever feel like if you didn't learn Regex, it was really going to fundamentally change Excel and your modeling and what you're doing? Almost no new formula or change felt like that, right? This is really what we're concerned about is this is a seismic shift. This is if I don't figure this out, is my business going to be dead in 5 years versus, oh, I didn't figure out regex. Oh, well.
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