
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... more
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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 this week
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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 proposed: Quality (does the arg... more
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). A small jewellery company buil... more
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 real binding force is human coll... more
A Wharton study of 1,372 people identified 'cognitive surrender': when AI produces an answer, people stop questioning it while recoding it as their own judgment. Accuracy drops from 45.8% alone to 31.5% with incorrect AI. The better the system gets, ... more
The gap between AI wonder and behaviour change. PwC's CEO says get with it or get out, but the real question is get with what. Jeremy Howard's slope-over-intercept frame: capability growth matters more than current output. Anthropic's research shows ... more
The dual experience of AI acceleration: excitement and terror, said in that order. Top builders 3-5x more productive, median only 10-20%. The gap widens. Amazon outages show what happens when power outpaces care. Skill requirements dropping in AI-exp... more
Leaders deploying AI face a binary choice: extraction (cut costs from existing operations) or expansion (grow what the organisation is capable of). The apprenticeship pipeline paradox: if juniors never do the grunt work AI now handles, how do they de... more










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