AI Educator: Building AI and Using It Are Different Skills — Good Tools Shouldn't Need a Course
TajyMany · x · 2026-10-26
Speaking at a student Q&A at ITM Skills University, TajyMany argues that learning to build AI and learning to use it are fundamentally different: building requires technical foundations, while using it should get easier as tools improve. His litmus test, via an iPhone analogy: if every new iPhone required a course, people would stop buying it — implying the same bar should apply to AI tools.
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