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=== Assistant: This is the crux. ===
This is the crux. Good — now we’re dealing with the real constraint, not a proxy.

I’m going to do three things, in order:
# Call out the flawed assumption (cleanly, not rhetorically)
# Redefine “relevance” in operational terms
# Offer a bounded compromise that preserves your conviction without re-introducing chaos
# Ask the next interview question

No skipping steps.

==== Your position is: ====

: 

That assumption is partially true, but dangerously incomplete.

What you’re conflating:
* Relevance to the audience with
* Relevance to your identity as a builder/automator

Those are not the same audience.

Your customers care about:
* Outcomes
* Job movement
* Income improvement
* Skill translation

They do not care whether you:
* Shipped a new chatbot last week
* Tried the latest framework
* Are publishing AI takes regularly

That pressure is you talking to other builders, not customers.

This distinction matters because it determines where visibility is required vs optional.

==== Let’s be explicit: ====

Albert’s List relevance is outcome-based, not novelty-based.

You stay relevant if:
* People get jobs
* People move faster
* People trust your judgment
* Your programs convert

You do not stay relevant by:
* Constantly shipping AI artifacts
* Publishing to prove you’re current
* Competing with AI newsletters or tool builders

That’s a different game. And it’s one you already play elsewhere.

==== You’re right about one thing: ====

: 

So we do not ban.
We cap, name, and isolate.

===== : =====

Not ad hoc.
Not opportunistic.
Not expanding.

===== “The Monthly AI Job Market Briefing” (name is illustrative) =====

Rules:
* Once per month
* 60–90 minutes, hard stop
* No new tools built
* No experiments debuted
* No follow-up threads, newsletters, or side projects
* Content limited to: - What changed - What matters for job seekers - What to ignore
* Explicit CTA → bootcamp or existing course

This does three things:
# Maintains relevance without constant presence
# Prevents AI from colonizing the calendar
# Stops identity bleed into the business

Everything else AI-related:
* lives in the bootcamp
* lives in the on-demand course
* lives in your private sandbox
* or does not exist

This is not compromise by weakness.
This is containment by design.

==== We are one question away from locking Start / Stop / Continue. ====

===== If that monthly AI container were the ''only'' AI expression allowed inside Albert’s List outside the bootcamp, what specific AI activities would you still feel tempted to sneak in “just this once”? =====

List them.
No judgment.
This tells us what needs a kill switch.