#2687 - Failure Friday: Debugging a Modern Business Idea
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from a side hustler who built his business on personalized tech tutorials and code reviews, only to find his services rendered obsolete by the rise of AI, particularly Microsoft's CoPilot.
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions
Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 1:13.0 | We're going to hear today from a side hustler who built his business on personalized |
| 1:16.4 | tech tutorials and code reviews, only to find these services kind of rendered obsolete |
| 1:22.0 | by the rise of AI, in particular Microsoft's co-pilot. |
| 1:26.1 | If you are a Coder or a programmer or otherwise working in a technical field, you probably |
| 1:29.8 | know all about Co-pilot. |
| 1:31.8 | It is one of many AI tools, but it's probably the most popular for coders. |
| 1:35.2 | It just makes their life so much easier. It writes their code for them in a lot of cases. |
| 1:39.4 | It does code reviews. It suggests different approaches and alternatives basically saves people a lot of time and it can also teach you along the way. |
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