I'm a construction superintendent. I used AI to build an AI course(buildyouroperator.com)
buildyouroperator.com
I'm a construction superintendent. I used AI to build an AI course
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This is awesome — building systems to scale your team is exactly what construction needs more of. We actually built DATUM+ (https://lowlevellogic.org) partly around this problem: field crews spending 3+ hours/day on paperwork instead of doing the work. Our DATUM AI™ field assistant handles daily reports, photo logging, and crew coordination in the field so supers like you can actually focus on operations. Curious if something like this would've shortened your build time on the course?
I manage heavy civil projects in Hawaii. No CS degree, no dev background. November 2025 I started building software with Claude as my developer.
Operator is the latest one. It's an AI course taught entirely through conversation — no videos, no slides. You talk to Gojo, an AI teacher that asks questions back, corrects your thinking, and won't move on until you actually get it.
The meta part: an AI course, built with AI, by someone who learned to use AI by building with it. That's not a coincidence — it's the whole thesis. You learn by doing, not watching.
Lesson 1 is free for anyone who signs up. Six lessons total in the founding cohort.
Stack: Next.js, Claude API, Supabase, Resend, Stripe. I directed every product decision. Claude wrote the code.
Happy to talk about the build process, the pedagogy, or what it's like shipping software without being a developer.
Operator is the latest one. It's an AI course taught entirely through conversation — no videos, no slides. You talk to Gojo, an AI teacher that asks questions back, corrects your thinking, and won't move on until you actually get it.
The meta part: an AI course, built with AI, by someone who learned to use AI by building with it. That's not a coincidence — it's the whole thesis. You learn by doing, not watching.
Lesson 1 is free for anyone who signs up. Six lessons total in the founding cohort.
Stack: Next.js, Claude API, Supabase, Resend, Stripe. I directed every product decision. Claude wrote the code.
Happy to talk about the build process, the pedagogy, or what it's like shipping software without being a developer.
Yes, but is the AI reliable enough?
Fair question — I don’t think raw AI is “reliable enough” if you treat it as a source of truth.
The goal here is the opposite: train people to work with it so outputs get pressure-tested instead of accepted blindly.
The system is structured as a back-and-forth — it asks for context, challenges inputs, and forces iteration — so reliability comes from the interaction, not the model alone.
In practice, the gap isn’t just model quality — it’s that most people don’t know how to make the outputs reliable.
The goal here is the opposite: train people to work with it so outputs get pressure-tested instead of accepted blindly.
The system is structured as a back-and-forth — it asks for context, challenges inputs, and forces iteration — so reliability comes from the interaction, not the model alone.
In practice, the gap isn’t just model quality — it’s that most people don’t know how to make the outputs reliable.
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