Uhhhhh.... BloomTech launched "Gauntlet AI" - free 12 week bootcamp, paid to live in Austin, TX, 100 hours a week, guaranteed $200K job if you finish??? Popcorn ready.

/u/t[tpfld](https://www.reddit.com/user/tpfld/) I watched it and this is my personal summary: 1. Austen demonstrates he's learned a lot from the industry and past attempts he's made about what works and doesn't work and was transparent about it 2. Transparent about the business model for Gauntlet, how it works and why it works right now. 3. Was missing discussion about choosing the top 2% IQ people to join, I think that's a relevant part of how it works that could be discussed more. If you tell a random 100 IQ person "check out Gauntlet it's legit", that wouldn't really be good advice so I think this part is important to talk about. 4. Transparent about the Guantlet being a recruiting and filtering process for companies. 5. One small detail was that he said if someone is not hired by a partner that Gauntlet will hire them and I'm assuming that's how the 200K gauranteed job is maintained (and is more credibility to it not being a scam). 6. He thinks that thousands of engineers (or perhaps AI employees) could do Gauntlet and it might not scale beyond that. This is both a good self-aware thing to avoid over scaling, but it also relies on the current job market inefficiency... and if that market inefficiency corrects itself the entire business model won't work anymore. I got the vibe that he was aware of this more than when Lambda School grew to 2000 people overnight but we'll see. Overall I think this is a pretty good podcast that I would recommend people listen to.