Steve Blank, an adjunct professor at Stanford and a founder of the Lean startup movement, said that the AI era has upended the basic workflow used in his entrepreneurship education. In describing the first day of the Lean LaunchPad class, Blank said teams arrived with fully working products rather than prototypes or drafts, a shift he had not seen in 16 years of teaching. Blank attributed the change to generative AI tools and code-assistant platforms, calling out a need to “revamp” the syllabus and warning that the next iteration may need to change again quickly. The reported classroom shift also implies that the traditional learning sequence—customer interviews, minimum viable products, and pivots—may no longer be the same gate for demonstrating understanding. The development comes as Blank’s broader Lean LaunchPad model underpins programs used across universities and has influenced the NSF’s I-Corps effort, meaning updates to pedagogy could reverberate beyond a single campus.