To anyone considering App Academy, don't

I definitely agree. product market fit is number one. That's table stakes. Companies can succeed with product market fit and lack of talent if they're able to catch up because their product market fit is so strong. If you have super strong product market fit, like some boot camps did during the boom, then you shouldn't be hiring back your students. you should be hiring Meta Engineers for $500,000 a year. And if you can't afford that then you don't have product market fit yet. If you have all the talent then you have one of the boxes checked but you still need product market fit. but this is why former employees or these companies get so much funding because they've already checked off some of the boxes. and the biggest question is just product market fit where people who don't have those backgrounds have more unknowns for these check boxes. I completely agree that it's not even clear what AI and education means. My personal take on it and this is also my company's take and not just my personal point of view, is that AI is going to make operations more efficient. going to make quality better. but people shouldn't really know that. the reason why I mix these things better is irrelevant because the ultimate product is a product that has nothing to do with AI. it's just an experience if that experience is improved with AI, I think that's a major advantage. like a hotel that uses AI behind the scenes to allocate rooms or to identify issues ahead of time to make your experience better. like you don't really care if they're using AI or not. you just want to have a great experience of this hotel. I can see a world where people also want to see AI as a signal that you are on top of things, but ultimately it's the experience that matters in a service business.