HousingWire Daily Nate Baker: We’ve reached the tipping point with AI
Oct 17, 2025
In this conversation, Nate Baker, CEO of Qualia and prolific tech entrepreneur, dives into the transformative role of AI in real estate. He highlights how AI's recent evolution can now tackle real business tasks, shifting workflows and enhancing productivity. Nate dispels the myth that automation leads to job loss, emphasizing that it expands job roles instead. He also discusses the democratizing power of AI for small players, the importance of integrated data for effective AI usage, and urges leaders to experiment with these technologies personally for meaningful advancements.
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Chat Interfaces Reshaped AI Expectations
- Claude Code and similar UIs changed expectations about what AI can do in business contexts.
- That shift made AI useful beyond novelty and triggered major investment and product momentum.
Automation Expands Job Scope
- Automation will expand job scope rather than simply eliminate roles.
- Experts will shift from authors of work to reviewers and editors of AI outputs.
Turn Emails Into Action Proposals
- Use AI to preprocess emails and present suggested actions for human approval.
- Make experts reviewers and approvers rather than rekeying every detail manually.