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Farewell 2024âa boring year in which nothing really happened! On this weekâs Reqless, Paul and Rich reflect on our current moment of widespread instability, from the cultural to the political to the technological, and discuss some of the ways they try to manage it (waffles!) (also building software). And because this is an AI podcast, they look back over a year of rapid change in the space, and make predictions for whatâs to come in 2025.
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Executives are all-in on AI, but many workers are not: A recent survey of white-collar employees conducted by Slack shows workplace AI adoption has slowed, even stalled, in recent months. On this weekâs Reqless, Paul and Rich explore the various reasons Slackâs respondents gave for their reticence and what they suggest about the current moment in tech. Is the issue the tools? Or is it how theyâre being asked to use themâor if theyâre being asked to use them at all.
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This week the robots bring the pink slipâŠfor Aboardâs CEO, Rich Ziade! On the latest episode of Reqless, Paul observes that much of Richâs job at their old agencyâlistening to the client, reframing their needs, outlining a solution and a path to build itâcould now be done, at least in part, by AI. What value can Richâand other skilled software âtranslatorsââbring to a project in a world of AI-accelerated development?
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On this weekâs Reqless, Paul and Rich receive a letter from a different Richâa UX researcher interested in helping NGOs make the most of new AI tech. What should a UX researcher learn right now so theyâre ready for whatâs next? They discuss the things AI is particularly good at right now (translating artifacts!), and give concrete suggestions for things a UX researcherâor any technologistâcan do to understand the breadth and scope of these tools.
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AI is on the verge of utterly transforming the software industry, but how quickly will that change come? While Paul has been betting on a shorter timeline, Rich had thought the pace of institutional change would slow things down significantly. But on this weekâs Reqless, Rich explains why his thinking has shiftedâand how heâs coming around to Paulâs speedier timeline.
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In the wake of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Paul and Rich look towards the future with an AI lensâespecially with the incoming Trump administration unlikely to put any regulatory guardrails on this rapidly evolving technology. What can AI do for people in our deeply fractured state? Are we doomed to poison the information environment forever, or could we use it to start building things that help people make sense of the world?
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Non-profits often have tight budgets and specialized needsâand wind up having to pay a whole lot of money for consultants and imperfect, out-of-the-box software solutions. As generative AI promises to drastically reduce the cost of development, how will that affect the non-profit and NGO landscape? On this weekâs Reqless, Paul and Rich assess this question, and offer up both immediate and longer-term advice for organizations struggling with software right now.
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The Biden administration recently put out their first-ever National Security Memorandum on Artificial Intelligence, so on this weekâs Reqless, Paul and Rich unpack the memo and discuss what it might mean for the U.S. governmentâs future attitudes towards AI. Plus: They talk about recent developments with Anthropicâs Claude that allow you to control all the computers in the world.
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How has public perception of AI changed over the past two years? On this weekâs Reqless, Paul and Rich welcome on writer and editor Josh Tyrangiel, whoâs been the Washington Postâs âAI touristâ columnist since early 2023. They discuss what heâs encountered in various industries experimenting with AI, and the overall sentiments heâs observed as ordinary people grapple with this technology. Plus: He discusses his recent collaboration with Oprah Winfrey on an AI special for ABC Newsâand the remarkable lettuce she served him for lunch.
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Reqless tends to take a measured yet optimistic stance on AI, but a lot of people out there hate itâfor reasons including the environmental impact, the dubious origins of LLM training data, and, of course, the looming threat of AGI, A.K.A. our future robot overlords. On this weekâs episode, Paul and Rich discuss some of those critiques, as well as zoom out to look at the longer arc of the technology industry and its impact on the world, asking the question, âIn five years, is the world in a better or a worse place because of AI?â
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Youâre a business stakeholder trying to evaluate AI tools for your organization. How should you assess themâand how should you measure the value of their outputs? On this weekâs Reqless, Paul pitches Rich an acronym for this very task: TRACE. Transparent, Repeatable, Actionable, Clear, Efficient. How can these metrics help someone understand these tools before letting them into their org, and help them calculate the potential return on investment? Plus: Paul and Rich discuss a recent interview with MIT economist Daron Acemoglu on just how many jobs heâs calculated will be eliminated by AI in the next decade.
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These days, it can take longer to plan the software launch party than to spin up the software itselfâwhich is exactly what happened with Aboard Climate, a new integration Paul, Rich, and the Aboard team debuted last week. Hangovers nursed and moderately rested, Paul and Rich discuss the event and the feature itselfâwhich lets you incorporate real-time data from the climate-change literacy organization Probable Futures directly in Aboardâbefore talking about how the building process reflects todayâs rapidly shifting landscape of software development.
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Does AI mean the end of software development jobsâor is this the start of a brand-new boom? Tech industry narratives are painting a gloomy future for coders, but on this weekâs Reqless, Paul and Rich take the opposite tack. AI will shift who has access to software creation and the way things get builtâso how should technologists position themselves for the coming decade?
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Is the SaaS era coming to an end? On this weekâs Reqless, Paul and Rich discuss recent comments from Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski, who says that generative AI has allowed them to build internal tools that let them dispose of products like Salesforce and Workday. With the cost of building software on the brink of dropping precipitously, what does that mean for the SaaS giants going forward?
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If AI is about to fundamentally change software development, what should current students be learning about code? On this weekâs Reqless, Paul anoints Rich as head of a fictional programming department and asks him to lay out his syllabusâbefore hijacking the exercise and laying out his own syllabus. You need just enough knowledge to really use these tools to program, so what exactly should students learn?
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Generative AI is already revolutionizing software developmentâso how long are developersâ jobs safe? On this weekâs Reqless, Paul and Rich use a recent post on the subject by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy to discuss the future of coders: What these tools will mean for organizations large and small; how new development paradigms will imperil the big consulting firms; and what advice they have for a junior developer looking at the next few decades of their career.
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How is AI changing the marketing industry? This week Paul and Rich welcome Noah Brier, a marketer and startup founder whoâs excited about the ways AI could be used to solve the industryâs problems. Topics discussed include his early interest and adoption of generative AI tools, the types of problems his marketing clients are trying to tackle with AI, and why the tech industry seems to be missing the true potential of AI in its messaging.
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By emphasizing the chatbot use case, are we missing the real communication powers of generative AI? On this weekâs Reqless, Paul describes his recent journey to understand the 900-page, far-right master plan that is Project 2025âwhich he fed into ChatGPT and then asked for its contents to be summarized by ââa âreally âcheerful, âoptimistic âsquirrel.â With the power to instantly change voice and toneâfor humor, to accommodate different reading levels, to speak with different dialects, etc.âis AIâs future role a sort of universal information translator?
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Are Metaâs ideas about AI the future of the technology? In the wake of the recent tech stock slump and with questions about newer AI companiesâ true value, Paul and Rich look at Metaâs Llama and how the company is positioning its model in the broader AI landscape. Plus: They assess the recent decision in United States v. Google LLCâaka the Google antitrust caseâand see if there are any real takeaways to be gleaned before what promises to be a lengthy appeals process.
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Itâs easy to make blanket claims about âAI taking jobsââbut what does AI mean for specific industries in the near-term? On this weekâs Reqless, Paul and Rich run through five careers (musician, advertiser, teacher, therapist, and consultant) and assess the ways AI mightâand might notâchange work. Plus: Paul describes himself as the âslightly grumpy girlfriendâ as he and Rich reminisce about going to see beloved indie band Low together.
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