{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Pragmatic AI with Matt Stauffer","title":"Wax On, Wax Off: What AI Can't Teach a 14-Year-Old","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3350,"description":"Matt Stauffer sits down with Bill Van Loo — high school engineering educator, creative technologist, and independent electronic musician — for a clear-eyed conversation about using AI in the real world. Bill describes himself as a longtime skeptic who spent a \"summer of AI learning\" and came out the other side with a practical framework rather than hype.\n\nThey dig into the difference between throwing a problem at AI and getting it to build you a tool, why Bill's laser-cutter workflow became his turning point, and the three ways he thinks about AI: as a thinking partner, a way to handle tedious work, and a way to build things.\n\nThe conversation also wrestles with the harder questions: how to prepare students who are anxious and often anti-AI, how to protect learning instead of offloading it, and where a working artist chooses to keep the machines out entirely.\nMatt Stauffer on X - https://x.com/mattstauffer\nTighten Website - https://tighten.com/\nBill Van Loo Website - http://billvanloo.com/\nBill Van Loo on Instagram - http://instagram.com/billvanloo\nBill Van Loo on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-van-loo\nMatt Laracon US Talk - https://youtu.be/au9bIQsrh8k?si=WoJ078glcr9CCnv7\n\n-----\n\nEditing and transcription sponsored by Tighten - https://tighten.com/","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/3enyAvaW7o2XuKO8gxz1hczs1w-ziZ7Pq03SgiXrNR0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kOGQ3/ODc2YWFlNGQ2NDY2/ZTkwYWZlOWU1OTYx/YWMyYS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}