Garry Tan: Teach the world to prompt — AI education mirrors MIT's first EE curriculum in 1882
garrytan · x · 2026-09-23
Y Combinator president Garry Tan argues we need to teach the world to prompt and maximally use AI, so everyone can see how it gives them wings in their pursuits—and then yearn to solve more problems for themselves and one another. Quoting an analogy to 1882, when Edison's Pearl Street station served its first 59 Manhattan customers the same fall MIT launched America's first electrical engineering curriculum, he frames co-evolution of enterprise and pedagogy as the model for what AI-era education should look like.
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