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Howard: Modern AI removes the 10x earning advantage of software coders
“Until 2023, Being really good at coding, whether that was JavaScript, Python, PHP, or anything else, meant you had essentially 10 X or more the earning potential and the ability to build quality solutions than everybody else in the world. And that has been the…”
Rob Howard: AI writing critics miss that most business writing is utilitarian
“People often will complain and criticize about AI writing, but I think what those criticisms miss is that a lot of the writing that needs to get done for businesses to move forward is boring. And it doesn't really matter if it's like poetry or not. Like it jus…”
Rob Howard: Private practice doctors are prime early adopters for AI consulting
“Somebody who has a limited amount of time, they're essentially a solopreneur or small business owner as a private practice doctor. They've got some money to invest in speed. And automation, and they value their time a lot. They were very early adopters, even t…”
Howard: AI integration dramatically boosts the value of Zapier and Make automations
“When AI comes into the mix though, now an automation gets so much more valuable, right? Because your automation can be Infinitely smarter than anything you could do previously with, you know, scripts and stuff like that. So that has dramatically increased the …”
Howard: The primary value of RAG chatbots is internal team drafting
“Where we find that chatbots and RAG, which is essentially Taking documents and putting them into a vector database so AI can read them, right? AI that can read your documents in a custom way is RAG. When you think about a chatbot in RAG, the value there is giv…”
Rob Howard: AI automations do not require complex integrations to deliver ROI
“You don't even need it to be a super fancy automation because the amount of time that's being saved, even with the final copy step, and you want the human in the loop anyway, to do that review, you're still saving such a huge amount of time that it's worth it …”
Howard: Software founders face a squeeze from Big Tech and weekend coders
“Anybody who's spent 24 working hours with Claude Code can also build a prototype of your thing pretty much over a weekend as one person, right? So you've got competition from the big players. But you've also got competition from the tiny do-it-yourself players…”
Howard: Bespoke AI consultants are insulated from big tech commoditization
“The other thing is that consultants who are building bespoke projects for clients repeatedly are not exposed To those same challenges, because by virtue of hiring a consultant, the client is essentially saying the Google Gemini built-in tool is not appropriate…”
Rob Howard: Medical professionals bought $10k AI consulting sight-unseen
“What we discovered at very accidentally was a ton of doctors, physicians, psychologists, people in like the medical space and adjacent were signing up for this. 10,000 dollar plus plan with us, like sight unseen, no sales call, not talking to me on the phone, …”
Howard: Automation platform n8n lacks proper branding and pronounceability
“They obviously were not thinking about the naming being, the name being said over and over again when they named it. And I think that's because, you know, it comes out of open source coding project or something along those lines. And you know, it certainly did…”
Howard: Innovating with AI acquired newsletters to reach 200,000 subscribers
“We in the past have acquired newsletters and acquired small software companies that had, you know, email lists associated with them, which have been, you know, really great Opportunities for growth for us. And what we have now is about 200,000 email subscriber…”
Howard: Technical AI consultancy students sell $80,000 engineering projects
“We have other students who are more on the engineer side who are selling
Like, 80,000 dollar engineering projects”
Rob Howard: Innovating with AI has 1,700 premium community members
“In our consulting program, we have a little bit over 1000 students who have joined us since July of last year of 2024, so a little over a year. We also have a previous program called the incubator, which is actually going to be re-released next year. We have a…”