Code, Cash & Kids

Hey Pops,

It's Friday, July 11th, and what a week. My 6-year-old has been "watering" the houseplants with chocolate milk, work exploded on Wednesday, and I found my car keys in the refrigerator. Ready for the weekend and ready to level up.
Time to get our AI game together.

Here's what we're conquering today:

• Using AI to automate your side hustle and actually make money while you sleep
• Teaching your kids to code so they can build the apps you wish existed
• Using your kids' gaming addiction to teach them real skills

Let's dad smarter, not harder.

THE SITUATION:

You've got a side hustle but you're basically working a second full-time job. Meanwhile, some 19-year-old on TikTok is making six figures with AI doing the work for them. Time to level up or get left behind.

ASK CHATGPT:

"Help me automate my [type of business] using AI tools. Include customer service automation, content creation, scheduling, and revenue optimization. Show me how to set up systems that run while I'm at my kid's soccer game."

FOLLOW-UP PROMPT: "Create an AI-powered sales funnel that converts leads into customers without me having to do discovery calls at 9 PM because that's the only time I'm free."

REALITY CHECK: If you're not using AI to do the boring stuff, you're working harder than teenagers who figured this out in study hall.

THE SITUATION:

Your 10-year-old complains about every app being "boring" while you're over here wishing someone would build an app that actually does what you need. Plot twist: maybe they can.

ASK CHATGPT:

"Create a coding curriculum for kids aged [ages] that starts with building simple apps they actually want to use. Include projects like family chore trackers, allowance calculators, and games that don't suck."

FOLLOW-UP PROMPT: "Help me set up a 'Dad & Kid Code Club' where we build useful family apps together. Include beginner-friendly programming languages and projects that solve real problems in our house."

REALITY CHECK: Teaching your kids to code is like teaching them to print money, except legal and more useful than whatever they're learning in school.

THE SITUATION:

Your kids can spend 8 hours straight optimizing their Minecraft builds or grinding levels in whatever game they're obsessed with this week. Meanwhile, you're wondering if all that focus and problem-solving energy could be channeled into something actually useful. Spoiler alert: it absolutely can.

ASK CHATGPT:

"Help me create learning challenges that use gaming mechanics to teach my kids aged [ages] real skills like math, coding, project management, and critical thinking. Include ways to gamify chores, homework, and life skills using the same reward systems that keep them glued to screens."

FOLLOW-UP PROMPT: "Design a 'real life RPG' system for my family where kids earn XP for completing tasks, level up their skills, and unlock new privileges. Include character sheets, skill trees, and achievement systems that make boring stuff feel like a game."

REALITY CHECK: If your kids can master complex game mechanics, they can master anything. You just need to present it in a language they understand: achievements, leaderboards, and epic loot.

GitHub Copilot – The AI that writes code for you while you pretend to know what you're doing.

This thing literally finishes your code as you type. It's like having a programming genius looking over your shoulder, except they never judge you for googling "how to center a div" for the 400th time. Useful for building those apps your kids want or automating your business processes.

Start typing a function and watch it complete entire blocks of code. Ask it to "write a Python script that organizes my photos by date" and it'll give you working code in seconds. Pretty wild how good it's gotten.

🔹 Free for students and open source contributors. $10/month otherwise. Worth it if you're building anything more complex than a to-do list.