Today on the AI Daily Brief, why AI could matter more for plumbers than for programmers.

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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 going to look

like in the future. But regardless of that, there is going to be a 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 Filter Buy, which is a direct-to-consumer air filtration company. Filterby generates over a

billion dollars in revenue, has more than 7 million 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 quote-unquote boring air filter business into a $260 million company.

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