The speaker encourages students to pursue their own capstone project ideas and gives them Y Combinator's Request for Startups as a source of final-project prompts.

“And, you know, and this is, like, like, in practice, ends up happening. Like, students for their capstone projects, I encourage them to go out and, like... In fact, what I give them as the seed of ideas for final projects is, like, the, the YC request for startups.”