AI implementation career opportunity

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A veteran tech guy compares the AI wave to every previous tech shift he's lived through, but says the real opportunity isn't building AI, it's implementing it inside businesses that have no idea how. He's telling young people and his own kids to focus less on AI research and more on learning how to apply it inside real companies for competitive advantage.

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History repeating: He's seen every tech cycle since PCs and says AI dwarfs all of them, but the pattern of resistance and slow adoption inside companies looks familiar.
Implementation over invention: Understanding AI matters less than knowing how to install it inside a specific business to create an edge. That's where the money and jobs are.
The PC analogy: At 24 he was walking into companies explaining PCs to people who insisted their receptionist and secretary made computers pointless. Same skepticism, different decade.
Software is dying: He references the Microsoft CEO's claim that software is dead because everything becomes custom to each user's specific usage, which means someone has to build that customization for every company.
The market gap: Of 33 million US companies, 30 million are solopreneurs. The rest range from tiny to mid-size and almost none of them will have AI budgets or in-house AI experts.
New grad opportunity: Kids coming out of school who learn to customize models and understand tools like Sora and Veo can walk into any business, understand its specific operations, and show it how AI helps. That's the job.
Advice to his own kids: Learn AI, but learn more about implementing it in companies, because that's the actual competitive advantage companies are missing right now.

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“I've been through every single technology, uh, you know, event and evolution, and this blows them all away.”
Alvin Foo

“Well, son, I got this receptionist right there. I got that secretary. I'm never gonna need that shit ever.”
Alvin Foo

“You got the head of Microsoft saying software is dead 'cause everything's gonna be customized to your unique utilization, right?”
Alvin Foo

“There are 33 million companies in this country. 30 million of them are solopreneurs, right?”
Alvin Foo

“That is every single job that's gonna be available for kids coming out of school because every single company needs that.”
Alvin Foo

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