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Two friends break down AI, technology, and entrepreneurship through mental models, real-world experience and the pursuit of a life well-lived.
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You need to have an AI epiphany (opens the original)
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An AI epiphany will convince you of the depth and breadth of its power as a technology, but you need to be careful about how that realization shapes your relationship with it. Summary If you haven't had an AI epiphany yet, you need to. For many of us, it is a visceral experience achieving something that was hard to imagine doing previously, but the danger is in the extrapolation: will this cause massive job loss? Can I do any kind of work now? Will work be necessary? The right response is asking
You don't actually want an AI employee (opens the original)
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"AI employee" is one of the easiest metaphors to reach for to describe agents, but unchecked, it's dangerous, and both over and underestimates what agents are capable of. Summary It's easy to describe AI in human terms. It takes on work we would historically have assigned to humans, and chats with us in a human form factor. But framing AI as an employee shapes the way we think about both the technology and the people we work with. In this episode, Eric and John outline the three most common type
The subconscious impact of using AI all day (opens the original)
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If you use AI all day, it will shape the way you work, and think about work, for better or worse. This is an old problem, but staying sharp requires new strategies. Summary Writing about Marshall McLuhan, John M. Culkin said, "We shape our tools, and thereafter, our tools shape us." Eric and John start the episode by sharing personal examples of tools shaping the way they work and think about work. For example, Eric's poor handwriting is a result of a decade at the keyboard, but slowing down to
7 questions with Trey Grainger: AI is an alien intelligence, not a computer (opens the original)
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AI has transformed how we find information, and Trey Grainger literally wrote the book on how that happened. John asks him 7 questions about his career and AI. Summary In a few short years, many of us have gone from searching Google to asking ChatGPT, and search within the products we use is being transformed by AI as well. Trey Grainger is one of the top thinkers on search, and literally co-wrote the book on AI-powered search (called, of course, AI-Powered Search ). Trey has spent nearly 20 yea
7 questions with Craig Kerstiens: AI is like 100 farm hands you don't have to feed (opens the original)
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Craig Kerstiens, our first guest on the show, has been a leader at tech companies sold to Salesforce, Microsoft, and Snowflake. John asks him 7 questions about his story and how he uses AI. Summary Craig Kerstiens is an engineer and product leader who was part of three major database acquisitions over the last decade, which he says happened "all by accident." John sat down with him at the Carolina Code Conference to ask 7 questions about his story and how he uses AI: Give us your background stor
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