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Hosted by David Boyle · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 25 episodes
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Each Saturday, David Boyle reflects on what feels important in the world of AI. Not the breathless hype or the doom. The practical, analytical perspective: what happened this week, what it means for people who use language models in their work, and what to try next.David is Director of Audience Strategies and co-founder of Steadman. He advises organisations from L.E.K. Consulting to the BBC on AI adoption. This podcast is a spoken-word version of his Saturday AI Thoughts newsletter, with different voices for each section.
David Boyle hosts David's Saturday AI Thoughts, a technology show with 25 episodes published.
The most common complaint David hears from senior leaders about AI is not about the technology at all. It is about what their own teams send them, and "that's just AI slop" has quietly become a way of avoiding a conversa
David introduces the colleague he has been running since New Year's Day: not the chatbot you visit or the agent you task, but a third kind that keeps a diary of a thousand entries, holds a handbook on how he works, and c
Cheap superhuman intelligence has arrived, and the strange part is how little changes: David's essay on why smoothing the work is not the same as changing the outcome. A leader's team stopped being the bottleneck and the
A reader asked David: what is the environmental cost of all this AI? His instinct was to reassure, because a single prompt burns about a quarter of a watt-hour. Then he saw it was only half the story: the real cost isn't
Fear of AI and excitement about it aren't competing conclusions; they're both smart readings of the same facts, and the same people often hold both at once. David gathered the fears readers sent in after last week's Sara
A story arrived nearly whole on a hot, sleepless London night, so David got up and wrote it: Sarah resigns on a Tuesday, and her firm keeps her anyway, rebuilt from three years of her emails, transcripts and Slack, becau
Two photographs of the same Wimbledon court forty-two years apart tell the whole story: in 1982 the grass is worn where players served and rushed the net, and by 2024 the bare patch has moved to the baseline because the
David sent an important email last week that a machine wrote, read it, changed nothing, and sent it — one of three handovers that look, on their face, like exactly the surrenders the worriers warn about. None of them wer
Almost nobody who sets up their AI ever tells it who they are. Not just the job title, but how they think, what they notice, how they decide. David Boyle argues that the empty personalisation box is the most useful quest
Anthropic's newest model costs exactly double its predecessor, one GitHub Copilot bill jumped from a flat $50 a month towards $3,000, and suddenly the invoice, not the model, is the story. David argues most organisations
What happened this week The CEO of a 350,000-person IT services firm says AI is hollowing out the middle, not the bottom.: Ravi Kumar, chief executive of Cognizant, told Fortune's COO Summit on 1st June that his company
What happened this week AI can now find software vulnerabilities faster than humans can patch them. Discovery is no longer the hard part; verification is.: A frontier model handed to fifty cybersecurity partners (Anthrop
What happened this week AI displacement now shows up in the US government data at both ends of the career ladder: A Bloomberg analysis of new BLS figures finds every one of the eighteen occupations the BLS classifies as
What happened this week The METR capability curve just went from one hour to one day. The unit of AI autonomy is now measured in human work-days, and the doubling holds on a log scale: METR, an AI evaluation lab, measure
What happened this week AI-adopting firms are growing headcount, not cutting it: A Goldman Sachs analysis circulating this week, charted by Callum Williams of The Economist, shows US firms that have adopted AI report net
David builds the case that flat-rate AI pricing is dying and that the buyer's question is no longer 'how much will this cost' but 'where does the spending compound'. He opens at a Las Vegas buffet that closed on 31st May
AI-native teams need three roles: Director, Builder, Auditor. Execution is cheap, verification is expensive. Most organisations have zero Auditors and are shipping nothing because nobody is named to check. What happened
AI broke the old proxy (good writing = good thinking) but the new proxy ('sounds like AI' = no thinking) is equally unreliable. A friend's challenge prompted a deeper question: evaluate thinking, not wording. Two tests p
Team-level AI infrastructure can precede and contain individual training. The cost of encoding how a team works into shared reusable tools just dropped from hours to minutes with Gen 2 tools (Claude Code + transcripts).
Organisations say they're production systems but behave like human systems. The revealed preference is togetherness, not efficiency. AI adoption reverts because training optimises for individual productivity while the re
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