Maker School was another disappointment in the same vein as AI Automation Society Plus. I joined hoping for a serious program that would help me build real skills, but what I got was a race to the bottom freelance program dressed up in AI branding. The information is consistently outdated. AI moves fast, and Nick is always a few steps behind. By the time he covers something, the tools have already changed or been replaced entirely. You're essentially paying to learn yesterday's stack. If you follow along and build what he teaches, you're going to show up to client calls pitching workflows that are already obsolete. Just like Nate, the upselling never stops. There's always another tier, another program, another offer being dangled in front of you. It becomes clear pretty quickly that the real product isn't the education. You're the product. The whole thing is engineered to extract as much money as possible from people who are just trying to learn. The freelance angle is the worst part. The program basically teaches everyone the same cookie cutter approach to landing automation clients, which means you're competing with every other Maker School graduate for the same bottom of the barrel gigs. There's no differentiation, no moat, nothing that sets you apart. It's a race to the bottom on price, and Nick doesn't seem to care because he's already got your subscription money. And that's the fundamental issue with both of these programs. Nick, like Nate, makes the bulk of his income from teaching, not from doing. He's not out there running a cutting edge automation agency and sharing hard won lessons. He's repackaging surface level knowledge and selling it to beginners who don't know any better yet. Between Maker School and AI Automation Society Plus, I've learned one valuable lesson: if someone's primary business model is teaching you how to make money, they're probably making most of theirs from you. Skip both of these and spend your time actually building things.

Wanted to share my experience since I couldn't find much discussion before enrolling. I watched it together with my roommate. Where it fell short for me: - Depth didn't match the price. Most of the core concepts (Plan/Execute/Clear, Ralph loops, AGENTS.md) are already covered in free YouTube content from other Claude Code creators. I was hoping the paid course would go significantly deeper. It mostly didn't. - Examples are narrow. Nearly everything is demonstrated on the instructor's own course-builder app. Ralph loops in particular are shown working great on a greenfield side project he controls end-to-end. I wanted to see these patterns applied to messier, existing production codebases, which is what the marketing emphasizes. But there was a string gap between the marketing and the course - Q&A didn't go deep. Office hours answers felt surface-level and didn't really show the model being pushed on hard edge cases. I was hoping for more "here's where this breaks and how I debug it" and got more restatement of the lesson content. - Matt is barely pushing the boundaries of Claude Code. His /grill-me skill is just a rehash of what a Claude Code Anthropic employee shared many months prior. It's all repurposed. No original ideas. If you're already using Claude Code daily and watching the YouTube scene, I don't think there's $795 of new material here. This is honestly like $30 of material. My roommate feels scammed and will be getting a refund.