Giving AI Another Chance
Published May 07, 2026 · 2:41 · 26,000 views
About This Video
Van's first encounter with ChatGPT in March 2023 went badly. Wrong answer about the Leica Q2 histogram. Wrong starter motor part number. He walked away. Then a misattributed quote sent him scrubbing through three and a half hours of No Direction Home before a Patreon subscriber identified the real source: Charles Eins, not Bobby Neworth. AI had failed him, but community hadn't.
The turn comes when Isabel starts using Claude to build children's courses about money, then Bower, a pod school platform Van describes as 'LinkedIn plus Airbnb plus school.' Hundreds of thousands of dollars of engineering replaced by months at two hundred a month. That's what made Van reconsider: not AI getting smarter, but watching someone he trusts build something real with it. The multicam problem he'd avoided for four years suddenly looked solvable.
Transcript
First time I used chat GPT was March 2023. I asked it how to turn off the histogram on my Q2. It told me it was wrong. I asked it for a part number for a starter motor. It told me I ordered it. It was wrong.
Hey, was it Bobby Neworth who said referring to yourself as an artist like referring to yourself as a genius? Sure was. Where? No Direction Home. Where in No Direction Home? Probably somewhere in the middle. No Direction Home is a 3 and 1/2 hour documentary. I scrubbed through the whole documentary. It weren't there. One of my Patreon subscribers told me it was Charles Eins. Found the clip. Used AI to remove the music. It's a little embarrassing to hear people refer to themselves as artists. It's like referring to themselves as a genius.
Then Isabelle started using Claude to make these courses for children about money. This was a few months ago and they were brilliant. The courses, the courses were brilliant. She started building Bower, which is a very sophisticated pod school platform and for teachers and parents. Basically, LinkedIn plus Airbnb plus school. It's the future. Pod school is the correct concept. And this thing that she built Bower I don't know how many hundreds of thousands of dollars and months of engineering it would have cost but certainly more than a few months at 200 bucks a month.
So I thought maybe I can use chat GPT to solve my multicam problem that I've been avoiding quarter inch for 4 years. Oh yeah. 1 2 3 4 years. The A10 Mini Pro.
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Products & Tools Mentioned
- ChatGPT negative→mixed — wrong about Leica histogram, wrong starter motor part, eventually useful for multicam
- Claude positive — Isabel used it to build children's money courses and Bower
- Bower positive — "LinkedIn plus Airbnb plus school," pod school platform for teachers and parents
- Leica Q2 neutral — histogram question was Van's first ChatGPT interaction
- ATEM Mini Pro positive — solution to multicam problem Van avoided for 4 years
- No Direction Home negative (AI context) — 3.5-hour documentary Van scrubbed looking for misattributed quote
- Patreon positive — subscriber corrected the Charles Eins attribution
People Referenced
Isabel, Bobby Neworth, Charles Eins