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Tools Change, Outcomes Remain
A house-building analogy separates changing tools from the outcome a customer still needs. AI is considered as a tool for delivering that outcome.
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Now, if you're using a wrench to pound in a in a nail to build a house, It's not going to work very well. And that group down the street that's got sort of air guns, like nail guns, and they're just going click, click, click, click, click, and they can like put a house up in a week. The frames, like versus months and months or maybe a year when you're trying to figure out why that wrench won't work, then it's likely that the folks using the air gun is probably gonna get more work because they can do more faster. AI's just an air gun. versus like trying to hammer stuff with a wrench, which is what we've been doing for a long time. So, um, but what doesn't change is the outcome. Still want a house, still need a house to live in. Still need to get that house built, want to build it, you know, a little faster, a little cheaper, so the people buying that house can afford it. That'd be cool, right?
Recorded February 2026.
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