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    "text": "This episode is provided by Thomas Allgeier and Frennus based on the most relevant LinkedIn posts about artificial intelligence from calendar weeks O three and O four."
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    "start": 9.6,
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    "text": "Frennus supports enterprises with market and competitive intelligence, decoding emerging technologies, customer insights, regulatory shifts, and competitor strategies."
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  {
    "start": 19.42,
    "end": 24.16,
    "text": "So product teams and strategy leaders don't just react, but shape the future of AI."
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    "start": 24.62,
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    "text": "It's going to be back."
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  {
    "start": 25.64,
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    "text": "And, you know, looking at the insights from the last couple of weeks in January, The whole tone just feels different."
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    "start": 32.4,
    "end": 32.84,
    "text": "It really does."
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  {
    "start": 32.92,
    "end": 34.6,
    "text": "I mean, we're not in the playground anymore, are we?"
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  {
    "start": 34.84,
    "end": 35.2,
    "text": "Not at all."
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  {
    "start": 35.34,
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    "text": "If twenty-twenty-four and twenty-twenty-five were the wow years, you know, everyone gasping because a computer wrote a poem or something."
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  {
    "start": 41.38,
    "end": 42.18,
    "text": "Yeah, the magic show."
  },
  {
    "start": 42.3,
    "end": 42.7,
    "text": "Exactly."
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  {
    "start": 43.08,
    "end": 48.64,
    "text": "Then early twenty-twenty-six feels like, I don't know, the year of the hangover, or maybe sobering up is a better way to put it."
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  {
    "start": 49.24,
    "end": 50.62,
    "text": "I think sobering up is fair."
  },
  {
    "start": 51.24,
    "end": 52.66,
    "text": "We're definitely seeing a narrative arc."
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  {
    "start": 52.86,
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    "text": "The hype cycle is settling and we're entering a phase of what I call operating discipline."
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    "start": 57.28,
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    "text": "The conversation is just pivoted so hard."
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    "start": 59.42,
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    "text": "It's not, look what this model can do anymore."
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    "start": 62.16,
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    "text": "Now it's... How do we run this safely, legally, and profitably at scale?"
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    "start": 67.82,
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    "text": "And that profitable part seems to be the one everyone's really struggling with."
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    "start": 71.16,
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    "text": "It's the shift from magic tricks to mechanics."
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  {
    "start": 73.58,
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    "text": "For sure."
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    "start": 74.6,
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    "text": "So for this deep dive, we're going to navigate that shift through a few key lenses."
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    "start": 78.5,
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    "text": "We've got to talk about governance, which I know sounds dry, but wait until you hear the numbers."
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    "start": 83.34,
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    "text": "Those"
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    "start": 83.58,
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    "text": "numbers are big."
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    "text": "Then there's the ticking clock in Europe with the AI Act, and then the tech itself."
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    "start": 89.26,
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    "text": "Because while the lawyers are panicking, the engineers are shifting from chatbots to full-blown agents."
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  {
    "start": 96.0,
    "end": 97.32,
    "text": "To the AI operating system."
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  {
    "start": 97.42,
    "end": 99.76,
    "text": "Yeah, it's a dense couple of weeks, but I think you're right."
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  {
    "start": 99.82,
    "end": 103.26,
    "text": "We have to start with a topic that's probably ruining sleep for every CEO right now."
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    "start": 103.46,
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    "text": "Governance, yeah."
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    "start": 104.66,
    "end": 108.36,
    "text": "Let's unpack this, because usually you say governance and people's eyes glaze over."
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    "start": 108.46,
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    "text": "They"
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    "start": 108.58,
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    "text": "tune out, yeah."
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    "start": 109.52,
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    "text": "But looking at a post from Julian Noble, that attitude is basically a death wish in twenty-twenty-six."
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    "start": 115.68,
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    "text": "It is."
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    "text": "Noble really laid it on the line."
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    "text": "He's saying air compliance has mutated."
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    "text": "It's no longer just an IT ticket."
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    "start": 122.12,
    "end": 122.3,
    "text": "Right."
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    "start": 122.34,
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    "text": "It's not, hey, IT, can you check the software anymore?"
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    "start": 124.8,
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    "text": "No."
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    "start": 125.42,
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    "text": "It's now a critical enterprise risk."
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    "start": 127.3,
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    "text": "And he's not just talking about the tech breaking."
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    "start": 129.24,
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    "text": "He's talking about exposure."
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    "start": 131.34,
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    "text": "hidden exposure."
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    "start": 132.38,
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    "text": "That's the key part."
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    "start": 133.1,
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    "text": "This is that shadow AI problem."
  },
  {
    "start": 135.32,
    "end": 140.86,
    "text": "The recruitment tool HR bought that's biased the marketing sauce that hallucinates claims about your product."
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    "start": 141.22,
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    "text": "The board isn't even tracking half of this stuff."
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    "start": 144.0,
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    "text": "And Noble points to the big financial stick here."
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    "start": 146.38,
    "end": 146.54,
    "text": "Yeah."
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    "start": 146.6,
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    "text": "With the EU AI Act in full force."
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    "start": 148.5,
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    "text": "We're not talking about a slap on the wrist."
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    "start": 150.1,
    "end": 150.16,
    "text": "No."
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    "text": "We're talking penalties up to thirty five million euros or seven percent of global turnover."
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    "start": 156.04,
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    "text": "Seven percent."
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    "text": "That is a resume generating event for a CEO."
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    "start": 159.3,
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    "text": "That is pack your box and leave money."
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    "start": 161.7,
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    "text": "It absolutely is."
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    "start": 163.06,
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    "text": "But here's the nuance, and Joanna Miley had a great insight on this."
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    "text": "Just reacting to that fear by trying to comply might also be the wrong"
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    "start": 170.24,
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    "text": "move."
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  {
    "start": 170.52,
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    "text": "What do you mean?"
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    "start": 171.72,
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    "text": "Well, she argues that viewing this as just AI Act plus done is a massive strategic error."
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    "start": 178.02,
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    "text": "She talks about a layered control stack."
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    "text": "A control stack."
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    "text": "That sounds like a cybersecurity principle, like defense in depth, but for AI."
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    "start": 185.48,
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    "text": "That's exactly it."
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    "start": 186.46,
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    "text": "Think about a bank today."
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    "start": 188.12,
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    "text": "You're not just juggling the AI Act."
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    "start": 190.04,
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    "text": "You've got GDPR, NIS-II, DeWara's, all at the same time."
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    "start": 195.32,
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    "text": "It's a regulatory minefield."
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    "start": 197.02,
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    "text": "It is."
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    "start": 197.98,
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    "text": "And Mylar's point is, you have to pick a control posture."
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    "start": 202.38,
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    "text": "Are you doing the bare minimum, or are you building control first?"
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    "start": 206.24,
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    "text": "designs."
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    "start": 206.7,
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    "text": "Which sounds great in theory, but that creates friction."
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    "start": 209.62,
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    "text": "I mean, I saw Shea Brown's post about procurement and it really hit home."
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    "start": 213.34,
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    "text": "He's seeing deals just stall out."
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    "text": "The computer says no moment."
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  {
    "start": 216.6,
    "end": 217.2,
    "text": "Exactly."
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    "start": 217.66,
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    "text": "And it's not because the startups have bad tech."
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    "start": 219.8,
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    "text": "It's because they walk into a meeting and procurement pulls out a fifty page questionnaire."
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    "start": 223.58,
    "end": 223.7,
    "text": "Yep."
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    "start": 224.06,
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    "text": "And Brown says they're failing because they can't answer the boring questions."
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    "start": 226.92,
    "end": 227.04,
    "text": "Yeah."
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    "start": 227.34,
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    "text": "Are you ISO forty two thousand one certified?"
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    "start": 229.86,
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    "text": "Have you tested for bias?"
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  {
    "start": 231.32,
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    "text": "Do you train on customer data?"
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  {
    "start": 232.88,
    "end": 232.94,
    "text": "And"
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  {
    "start": 232.98,
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    "text": "the founder is just staring blankly wanting to show off their cool demo."
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  {
    "start": 236.52,
    "end": 238.22,
    "text": "And the deal just dies right there."
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  {
    "start": 238.66,
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    "text": "Brown's insight is that if you can't get past procurement in twenty twenty six, you don't have a business."
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  {
    "start": 243.26,
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    "text": "It doesn't matter how smart your model is."
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  {
    "start": 245.06,
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    "text": "This"
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  {
    "start": 245.24,
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    "text": "just feels like a reckoning for the move fast and break things crowd."
  },
  {
    "start": 249.12,
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    "text": "And Paula Falcon gave it a name I love."
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  {
    "start": 251.36,
    "end": 252.64,
    "text": "Architectural bankruptcy."
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  {
    "start": 253.06,
    "end": 254.72,
    "text": "It's a stinging phrase, isn't it?"
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    "start": 254.9,
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    "text": "It"
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    "start": 255.1,
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    "text": "hurts because it's true."
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    "start": 256.519,
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    "text": "It is."
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    "start": 257.12,
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    "text": "Falcon says if you spent a ton of money on AI in twenty twenty five without a governance framework, you didn't buy innovation."
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  {
    "start": 265.1,
    "end": 266.64,
    "text": "You've funded architectural bankruptcy."
  },
  {
    "start": 266.86,
    "end": 267.02,
    "text": "Wow."
  },
  {
    "start": 267.42,
    "end": 271.02,
    "text": "The failures we're seeing aren't because people chose the wrong LLM."
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  {
    "start": 271.42,
    "end": 274.86,
    "text": "They failed because of bad enterprise architecture and unstructured data."
  },
  {
    "start": 275.0,
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    "text": "You can't build a skyscraper on a swamp."
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  {
    "start": 277.04,
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    "text": "You just get a faster way to make mistakes."
  },
  {
    "start": 279.14,
    "end": 283.76,
    "text": "And a faster way to get fined, which brings us, I think, to the geography of those fines."
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  {
    "start": 284.34,
    "end": 285.16,
    "text": "We have to talk about Europe."
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  {
    "start": 285.22,
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    "text": "All"
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  {
    "start": 285.32,
    "end": 285.5,
    "text": "right."
  },
  {
    "start": 285.74,
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    "text": "Theme two, the clock is ticking."
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    "start": 288.04,
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    "text": "Matt Elsie flagged a specific deadline that everyone needs to have circled in red."
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    "start": 292.08,
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    "text": "August, that is the deadline for full obligations on high-risk systems."
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    "start": 296.68,
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    "text": "Which"
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    "start": 296.82,
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    "text": "is only what, six months away?"
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  {
    "start": 298.44,
    "end": 302.4,
    "text": "And we should clarify, high-risk catches a lot more than just, you know, medical robots."
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  {
    "start": 302.6,
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    "text": "Oh, much more."
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    "start": 303.52,
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    "text": "If your AI agent influences hiring, sets credit limits, determines insurance premiums, or denies refunds."
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    "start": 309.92,
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    "text": "So basically half the back office of any modern company."
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    "start": 313.18,
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    "text": "Pretty much."
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    "start": 314.46,
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    "text": "And Elsie points out you need eight core pillars of compliance ready."
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    "start": 318.24,
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    "text": "But the hardest one, I think, is real human oversight."
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    "start": 322.52,
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    "text": "And that doesn't just mean a person watching a screen."
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    "start": 324.92,
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    "text": "No, not at all."
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    "start": 326.14,
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    "text": "It means a human with the authority and the competence to hit the stop button."
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    "text": "If an algorithm denies a loan and a human just rubber stamps it without knowing why, that's not oversight."
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    "start": 336.34,
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    "text": "That's non-compliance."
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    "start": 337.78,
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    "text": "And that connects to this idea of sovereignty, right?"
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    "start": 340.06,
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    "text": "For years, it was just about data location."
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    "start": 342.66,
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    "text": "Is it in Frankfurt or Virginia?"
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  {
    "start": 344.14,
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    "text": "Yeah, that was the old definition."
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    "start": 345.24,
    "end": 345.32,
    "text": "Yeah."
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    "start": 345.66,
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    "text": "Rob Thomas posted something that suggests that's totally outdated."
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    "start": 349.22,
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    "text": "He argues sovereignty has evolved from geography to operation."
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    "text": "He calls it decision authority."
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    "start": 355.12,
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    "text": "So it's about who's the boss?"
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    "start": 356.62,
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    "text": "Basically, who owns the outcome?"
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    "start": 358.86,
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    "text": "Sovereignty in twenty twenty six means proving where the inference happened and who was in control."
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    "start": 363.66,
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    "text": "If you use a black box model and can't audit the logic, you don't have sovereignty."
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    "start": 367.34,
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    "text": "You just have a European server."
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    "start": 368.94,
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    "text": "That is a critical distinction."
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    "start": 371.1,
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    "text": "It's accountability, not residency."
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    "start": 373.92,
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    "text": "This must be a nightmare for regulated sectors."
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    "start": 376.26,
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    "text": "I saw Eric Van Dyke talking about MedTech."
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    "start": 378.72,
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    "text": "MedTech is the deep end of the pool here."
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    "text": "Van Dyke says Brussels is trying to align the AI Act with the existing medical device regulations."
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    "start": 386.08,
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    "text": "But right now, it's a double burden."
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    "start": 388.4,
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    "text": "So for them, AI is less... innovation lab."
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    "start": 391.46,
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    "text": "And more compliance permit."
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  {
    "start": 392.64,
    "end": 393.0,
    "text": "Exactly."
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    "start": 393.62,
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    "text": "But here's the paradox."
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    "start": 395.22,
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    "text": "While the legal teams are demanding human oversight, the tech itself is evolving to operate without it."
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    "start": 401.28,
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    "text": "We're moving from chatbots to agents."
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    "start": 403.72,
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    "text": "This is the exciting part."
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    "text": "And we're seeing a lot of buzz from people like Nandan Malikara about the AI operating system."
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    "text": "This is a huge conceptual shift."
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    "start": 411.6,
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    "text": "Think about the old swivel chair workflow."
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    "start": 413.72,
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    "text": "Oh, I know it will."
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    "start": 414.66,
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    "text": "Open chat GPT, ask it to draft an email, copy."
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    "start": 417.5,
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    "text": "swivel to Outlook, paste, swivel to SAP, download a CSV."
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    "start": 421.46,
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    "text": "It was exhausting and just so inefficient."
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    "start": 424.46,
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    "text": "Malikar argues the AIOS gets rid of that."
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    "start": 426.98,
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    "text": "The human just says, get the QFOR report and email a summary to the board."
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    "start": 431.18,
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    "text": "And the"
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    "start": 431.44,
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    "text": "AI traverses the ERP, pulls the CRM data, does the whole thing."
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    "start": 435.54,
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    "text": "The AI is the orchestrator."
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    "start": 437.4,
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    "text": "The enterprise apps become the back end."
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    "start": 439.82,
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    "text": "Malikar appointed to Claude Coat, hitting a billion dollars in ARR faster than chat GBT as a signal."
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    "start": 447.48,
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    "text": "The market is paying for execution, not just conversation."
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    "start": 450.98,
    "end": 452.82,
    "text": "Simon Taylor had a great analogy for this."
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    "start": 452.92,
    "end": 456.12,
    "text": "He called the modern agent a co-worker, not just a tool."
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  {
    "start": 456.34,
    "end": 456.52,
    "text": "Right."
  },
  {
    "start": 456.98,
    "end": 458.92,
    "text": "He used an example with Figma and Slack."
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    "start": 459.42,
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    "text": "One prompt."
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  {
    "start": 460.82,
    "end": 465.96,
    "text": "draft the Slack update, visualize the new timeline in Figma, and create the tasks in Asana."
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    "text": "One prompt, three different applications."
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    "text": "It understands the workflow context."
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    "text": "Exactly."
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    "start": 471.12,
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    "text": "And that shift from generating text to executing actions changes how you build these things."
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    "start": 476.06,
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    "text": "BriefCashorePandy had a strong post on this."
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    "start": 478.38,
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    "text": "He says, twenty twenty six is all about building reliable systems."
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    "text": "So my library of perfect prompts isn't enough anymore."
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    "start": 484.86,
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    "text": "It's not useless, but it's not enough."
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    "text": "Bandy says prompt engineering is being replaced by system engineering."
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    "text": "The stack has an orchestration layer, a memory layer, and crucially an evaluation layer."
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    "text": "Because you can't just eyeball it anymore, you need automated testing if an agent is sending emails on its own."
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    "text": "If you're just tweaking prompts in a playground in twenty twenty six."
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    "start": 504.66,
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    "text": "You're already behind."
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    "start": 505.62,
    "end": 506.62,
    "text": "Okay, but where's the money?"
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    "start": 506.92,
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    "text": "Is this just cool tech or does it pay off?"
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    "start": 509.2,
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    "text": "I saw John Godel's breakdown for chief revenue officers."
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    "start": 511.96,
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    "text": "Yes,"
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    "text": "Godel frames this as an operating leverage tool."
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    "text": "Operating levers?"
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    "text": "That's music to a CFO's ears."
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    "start": 518.299,
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    "text": "It is."
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    "text": "Think about a deal desk."
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    "start": 520.78,
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    "text": "Usually a huge bottleneck."
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    "text": "An agent can auto build that approval packet in seconds."
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    "text": "It reduces the cycle time of deals."
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    "start": 528.28,
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    "text": "And if you close a deal three days faster, that's direct revenue impact."
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    "start": 531.7,
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    "text": "That's cash flow."
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  {
    "start": 532.5,
    "end": 533.02,
    "text": "Exactly."
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  {
    "start": 533.46,
    "end": 535.14,
    "text": "But... And there's always a but."
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    "start": 535.42,
    "end": 536.1,
    "text": "There always is."
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    "start": 536.18,
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    "text": "Is it actually working?"
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    "start": 537.56,
    "end": 539.98,
    "text": "This brings us to the reality check part of this."
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    "start": 540.62,
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    "text": "Let's play Devil's Advocate."
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    "start": 541.8,
    "end": 544.48,
    "text": "Hina Purohit posted about the productivity paradox."
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    "start": 544.68,
    "end": 545.86,
    "text": "The numbers she cited were"
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    "start": 546.7,
    "end": 547.06,
    "text": "weird."
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    "start": 547.14,
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    "text": "They're stark."
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    "text": "She cites data showing seventy-four percent of teams report productivity gains from AI."
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    "start": 553.86,
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    "text": "They feel faster, but only eleven percent report measurable value."
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    "start": 558.32,
    "end": 558.66,
    "text": "Wait, what?"
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  {
    "start": 558.76,
    "end": 563.8,
    "text": "So people are churning out more stuff, more code, more slides, but it's not moving the needle on the business."
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    "start": 564.22,
    "end": 566.08,
    "text": "We might just be generating noise faster."
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    "start": 567.18,
    "end": 570.32,
    "text": "And Werner Heistek pointed out something even crazier about software development."
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  {
    "start": 570.5,
    "end": 570.56,
    "text": "The"
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    "end": 571.68,
    "text": "coding assistants?"
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  {
    "start": 571.92,
    "end": 572.62,
    "text": "I love those."
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    "start": 572.68,
    "end": 572.9,
    "text": "People"
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    "start": 572.98,
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    "text": "do, but Heistek points to cases where AI coding caused a nineteen percent slowdown."
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    "start": 579.04,
    "end": 579.82,
    "text": "A slowdown?"
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    "start": 580.36,
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    "text": "How is that even possible?"
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    "start": 582.18,
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    "text": "It writes the code instantly, but is it the right code?"
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    "start": 585.42,
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    "text": "The slowdown is the verify tax."
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    "start": 587.9,
    "end": 593.22,
    "text": "The human developer has to spend hours debugging and fixing the messy code the AI generated."
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    "start": 593.56,
    "end": 594.02,
    "text": "I feel that."
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    "start": 594.14,
    "end": 595.76,
    "text": "It's like being an editor instead of a writer."
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  {
    "start": 595.9,
    "end": 597.48,
    "text": "Sometimes editing takes way longer."
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    "start": 597.62,
    "end": 598.48,
    "text": "So how do we fix"
  },
  {
    "start": 598.62,
    "end": 598.86,
    "text": "this?"
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    "start": 599.18,
    "end": 601.78,
    "text": "Aman Ruiz suggests it's an organizational design problem."
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    "start": 602.12,
    "end": 603.74,
    "text": "He talks about the AI native squad."
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  {
    "start": 604.06,
    "end": 606.4,
    "text": "Squad, not just one AI wizard on the team."
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  {
    "start": 606.52,
    "end": 607.0,
    "text": "Exactly."
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  {
    "start": 607.34,
    "end": 611.2,
    "text": "Ruiz argues that having one wizard doesn't help if everyone else is stuck in twenty twenty two."
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    "start": 611.8,
    "end": 613.06,
    "text": "The friction kills the speed."
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    "start": 613.36,
    "end": 615.02,
    "text": "The whole squad needs to level up together."
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  {
    "start": 615.26,
    "end": 616.12,
    "text": "That makes total sense."
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  {
    "start": 616.32,
    "end": 618.48,
    "text": "Culture eats AI for lunch, apparently."
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  {
    "start": 618.76,
    "end": 619.02,
    "text": "Does."
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  {
    "start": 619.56,
    "end": 620.86,
    "text": "And one last thing before we wrap."
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  {
    "start": 621.28,
    "end": 623.3,
    "text": "The huge looming risk with these agents."
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  {
    "start": 624.26,
    "end": 624.7,
    "text": "Security."
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  {
    "start": 625.34,
    "end": 626.76,
    "text": "Specifically, prompt injection."
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  {
    "start": 627.02,
    "end": 628.32,
    "text": "Bernard Maher flagged this."
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  {
    "start": 628.6,
    "end": 630.28,
    "text": "And for a long time, I just thought that was a prank."
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  {
    "start": 630.7,
    "end": 632.42,
    "text": "Tricking a chatbot into saying something"
  },
  {
    "start": 632.62,
    "end": 632.76,
    "text": "similar."
  },
  {
    "start": 632.8,
    "end": 634.7,
    "text": "When it's just a chatbot, it is a prank."
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  {
    "start": 635.26,
    "end": 639.4,
    "text": "But now connect it to an agent that can access your ERP, your bank account."
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  {
    "start": 639.48,
    "end": 639.72,
    "text": "Right."
  },
  {
    "start": 640.04,
    "end": 642.74,
    "text": "If I can trick the agent, I'm not getting a poem."
  },
  {
    "start": 643.1,
    "end": 646.18,
    "text": "I'm transferring money or deleting the customer database."
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  {
    "start": 646.52,
    "end": 648.86,
    "text": "Prompt injection becomes a critical vulnerability."
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  {
    "start": 649.12,
    "end": 650.18,
    "text": "It's not a toy anymore."
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  {
    "start": 650.28,
    "end": 652.22,
    "text": "It's a security breach waiting to happen."
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  {
    "start": 652.92,
    "end": 657.02,
    "text": "So if we pull all this together... the wow phase is dead."
  },
  {
    "start": 657.4,
    "end": 658.8,
    "text": "We need strict governance."
  },
  {
    "start": 658.86,
    "end": 660.26,
    "text": "We need solid architecture."
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  {
    "start": 660.62,
    "end": 666.04,
    "text": "And we're shifting to agents that can do real work, but that comes with a whole new set of risks."
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  {
    "start": 666.18,
    "end": 671.6,
    "text": "And we have to do it all while navigating a productivity paradox where faster doesn't always mean better."
  },
  {
    "start": 671.94,
    "end": 676.0,
    "text": "It sounds like twenty twenty six is the year of the grown-up conversation about AI."
  },
  {
    "start": 676.14,
    "end": 677.48,
    "text": "I think that is the perfect way to put it."
  },
  {
    "start": 677.68,
    "end": 677.82,
    "text": "Okay,"
  },
  {
    "start": 677.9,
    "end": 678.64,
    "text": "let's wrap this up."
  },
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    "start": 679.04,
    "end": 681.92,
    "text": "If you enjoyed this episode, new episodes drop every two weeks."
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    "start": 690.58,
    "end": 690.8,
    "text": "tech."
  },
  {
    "start": 691.2,
    "end": 696.76,
    "text": "And if I can leave you with one final thought, we are moving from the wow phase to the how phase."
  },
  {
    "start": 697.48,
    "end": 700.3,
    "text": "The winners in twenty twenty six won't be the ones with the best models."
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    "start": 701.0,
    "end": 704.84,
    "text": "The winners will be the ones with the best architecture and governance to run them safely."
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    "start": 705.42,
    "end": 706.7,
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