MIT: ChatGPT Is Making You Dumb — We Break It Down

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Owen Drury
July 01, 2025

AI atrophy, prefab revolutions, and why VCs are missing the biggest prize in history.

In this week’s Bricks, Bucks & Bytes episode:

🚨 MIT says ChatGPT makes you dumber. We break down what it really means for the next generation of builders.

📈 Why 90% of Decacorns aren’t what you think. Patric drops the Six Sigma math on outliers and why VCs are chasing the wrong unicorns

⚖️ We argue whether AI-driven app clones like Springtime vs. DocuSign will redefine who owns what.


But that’s not all:

Patric shares a mind-bending “Black Mirror” thought experiment on AI as a cognitive drug.

Aleks Gampel gives us a live tour from a Cuby site where software turns rookies into builders overnight.

Danny (Cuby’s new Chief of Staff) reveals how unskilled labor can assemble homes like Lego.


🎧 Listen now for:

  • Why construction might be the last frontier for venture outliers.

  • The real reason investors ignore trillion-dollar opportunities in AEC.

  • How Cuby is quietly building a model for 21st-century housing.


🗣 Bonus: Some personal highlights

  • Patric’s new mustache is inspired by Top Gun (seriously).

  • Owen’s take on whether AI will ruin his kids’ ability to do homework.

  • Martin’s backdrop is different every week (he’s basically a digital nomad).