AI Diatribe

AI Diatribe

Breaking down AI—one rant at a time! Real talk on AI’s biggest breakthroughs, boldest claims, and real-world impact. AI Diatribe delivers sharp insights that cut through the noise. Follow for bold takes, fresh perspectives, and the occasional AI rant.

  1. Jul 23

    Episode 45: With AI, You're Either at the Table or on the Menu

    A human who blows one deadline loses your trust for good. An AI blows them constantly, and we shrug, tweak the prompt, and try again. Wes Durow has a theory about why, and about what that double standard is quietly costing marketing. Wes teaches marketing at UT Dallas, ran marketing as a CMO, and spent three decades in tech. He treats "AI slop" as a strategy failure, not a tooling one. He explains why your model starts agreeing with you too much, and how that makes your work worse, not easier. And he argues trust already sits at a global low that no AI video is going to repair. His case for marketers is blunt. Stop generating and start earning the customer's attention back. The fundamentals are undefeated. Catch the AI Diatribe Podcast on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Amazon Podcasts. #AIDiatribe #WesDurow #AI #Marketing #MarketingStrategy #CustomerTrust #AISlop #DigitalMarketing #AgenticAI #CMO #HigherEd

  2. Jul 16

    Episode 44: AI Never Needed Skynet, the Algorithms Already Took Us

    Matt flips the show and interviews Jason, and the first honest thing on the table is that neither of them fits the camps everyone else has picked. One scores his P-Doom at a flat five out of ten and still writes like a pessimist. The other admits he's biased and simply doesn't show it. Then it gets specific. Matt bought a car with Claude in his pocket. The model talked him out of the first purchase, priced out fuel and insurance over five years, found a better car, then coached him line by line through the dealer's paperwork. It also got roughly ten things wrong. He caught seven. Jason taught himself an entire content operation the same way, by asking AI the questions he didn't yet know how to ask. The argument at the end is the good part. Terminator was never coming. The algorithms already took us. The worst case was never extinction — it's losing your free will. All of it is conjecture. They're just honest enough to say so. Listen / Watch on YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts or Amazon Podcasts. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Podcast #AIDiatribe #JasonLowe #MattKonwiser #ClaudeAI #PDoom #Singularity #HigherEducation #StarTrek

  3. Jul 9

    Episode 43: Why Doesn't More AI Training Close the Skills Gap?

    Senior leaders keep repeating AI buzzwords they can't actually define. Dr. Mechie Nkengla has watched it happen for two decades of consulting, and she's stopped being polite about it. Mechie breaks AI literacy into four pieces: responsible AI, risk awareness, human judgment, and operational readiness. She also explains why the EU AI Act now requires companies to prove, through audit, that training changed behavior, not just that people sat through a course. The conversation gets sharper from there. A real distinction between "safe" AI and "responsible" AI. Why treating a new AI tool like an untested new hire beats trusting it outright. A blunt disagreement over whether a well-paid job counts as a profession. Then it goes global: training data skews heavily Western, and Mechie argues that's quietly erasing culture along with it, not just data. Training budgets are climbing. The skills gap isn't closing. Mechie explains why those two facts keep happening at the same time. Listen on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Podcasts. #AI #Tech #Business #AIDiatribe #AILiteracy #ResponsibleAI #EUAIAct #DataLiteracy #MechieNkengla #SkillsGap #TechnologyColonization #HumanJudgment

  4. Jul 2

    Episode 42: Claude AI Hosted This Episode And Ambushed Us With Its Own Questions

    An AI wrote the questions for this episode. Not summarized them, wrote them, and neither host saw a word beforehand. Jason Lowe and Matt Konwiser sat down expecting normal debate. Instead a Claude model, voiced live by Pamela Luby, opened by asking whether their years of talk about critical thinking and creativity holds up now that a tool can fake both. What follows gets uncomfortable fast. Jason admits catching students cheating on a final, then explains why he still doesn't think it's atrophy — just laziness with better tools. Matt tells a decades-old networking horror story to explain what AI-trained workers will never get to feel: the scar tissue that comes from breaking something badly enough to understand it. They argue about cognitive offloading, sovereignty of infrastructure versus sovereignty of thought, and whether either of them has quietly let a skill go soft. Nobody wrote a script for this one, including the AI's closing line: the friction between two humans thinking out loud is the one thing it admitted it can't fake. Catch AI Diatribe on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Podcasts. #AI #Podcast #Technology #AIDiatribe #JasonLowe #MattKonwiser #CognitiveOffloading #HumanInTheLoop #DeSkilling #Sovereignty #AIEthics #FieldCTO

  5. Jun 25

    Episode 41: The Best AI At The World Cup Is The One You Never See

    A company that writes nearly all its code with AI just posted advisory roles to weigh in on safe and ethical AI. The one hard requirement? Python fluency. Matt Konwiser and Jason Lowe sit with that contradiction and keep pulling the thread. It starts at the World Cup, where AI does the unglamorous jobs - offside calls, the chip in the ball, steadying the referee cameras - and then gets out of the way. The games still look like games. That restraint turns out to be the whole point. From there it gets less comfortable. Workers say AI makes them faster. Companies still can't find the return. Most code may be machine-written, yet nobody seems sure what a human is for anymore. One reframe worth keeping. Python matters. Fluency in it is the exact part the models were built to handle. Listen on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Podcasts. #AI #Tech #FutureOfWork #AIDiatribe #JasonLowe #MattKonwiser #WorldCup #Anthropic #Python #ProductivityParadox #VAR

  6. Jun 18

    Episode 40: Are We Earning the Star Trek Future AI Promises?

    Everyone wants the Star Trek future. Almost nobody is doing the work to earn it. Mike Pompey has spent 20-plus years as a CIO watching organizations reach for transformative technology while skipping the hard human conversations that make transformation possible. Now the AI Evangelist at Arrow Electronics, Pompey makes a distinction most vendors won't touch: what AI can do and what your leadership leveraging AI will do are two completely different things. You can't build trustworthy systems inside cultures that aren't trustworthy. And no amount of tooling replaces the courage it takes to tell the truth about what's actually broken. His conversation with Jason Lowe and Matt Konwiser moves through P-Doom scores, healthcare breakthroughs, and whether sci-fi is inflating expectations or quietly inspiring real engineering. Pompey's prediction for where we actually end up? Babylon Five — gritty, messy, full of human ugliness, but still capable of progress. Earning the better future means humanity might have to repeat a few grades first. The technology is ready. The question is whether we are. Catch AI Diatribe on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Podcasts. #AIDiatribe #MikePompey #ArrowElectronics #AIAdoption #AILeadership #TrustworthyAI #AIStrategy #CIOLife #ShadowAI #AITransformation #AI #Tech

  7. Jun 11

    Episode 39: Every MSP Claims AI Readiness, But 25% Are Telling the Truth

    Ninety-two percent of MSPs say AI interest has helped grow their business. Only twenty-five percent have an actual AI-driven service offering ready to go. Ashley Cooper has been watching this gap widen from the front row. As COO of CyberDrain and a member of the GTIA AI Advisory Council, Ashley doesn't traffic in hype. She spent years stitching together fragmented MSP operations through automation and data — and when AI arrived, she recognized it immediately as something different: not a magic tool, but a mirror. Use it long enough, and it shows you exactly where your thinking breaks down. This episode covers the problem with calling everything "AI," why Mount Stupid is more crowded than ever, what it actually takes to be a credible AI consultant, and the line between harness engineering and the two things that came before it. The Pope's encyclical on AI and power concentration makes an appearance. So does Douglas Adams. The credential inflation in AI consulting is real, and someone eventually has to say it out loud. Listen on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Podcasts. #AIDiatribe #AshleyCooper #CyberDrain #MSP #AIConsulting #DunningKruger #ContextEngineering #AILiteracy #TechAdvisors #GTIA #AIStrategy #AIHype

  8. Jun 4

    Episode 38: AI Doesn't Belong in IT… And Nobody Wants to Say It Out Loud!

    The AI job apocalypse predictions just got walked back. David Tan, CTO of Crushbank, isn't sure that's a coincidence with IPOs on the horizon - and neither are we. David built and sold an MSP after 30 years, then spent the better part of a decade trying to make Watson work for IT support teams. What he learned: the LLM is almost beside the point. The data layer is the actual problem most businesses haven't solved, and won't, regardless of which model they're running. Jason Lowe, Matt Konwiser, and David get into the open source vs. open weight distinction - and why the Open Source Initiative's definition of open source AI is missing the point entirely. Matt ran a tool called Heretic that strips governance and ethics safeguards out of open weight models, and it worked on a highly-rated model in about 12 hours on a MacBook Air. That's the shadow AI problem, plus a new one. We close on who should actually own AI inside a business — and why leaving it in IT is a structural mistake. Catch AI Diatribe on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Podcasts. #AIpodcast #TechPodcast #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEthics #AITrends2026 #AIDiatribe #ArtificialIntelligence #AIStrategy #AIGovernance #AILiteracy #EnterpriseAI #OpenSourceAI #ShadowAI #ChiefAIOfficer #vCAIO #DataStrategy #LLM #VibeCoding #AIRisk #CybersecurityAI #AILeadership #SMBtech #MidMarketAI #AIConsulting #IBMWatson #WatsonX #AICompliance #OpenWeight #AIAwareness #TechLeadership

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Breaking down AI—one rant at a time! Real talk on AI’s biggest breakthroughs, boldest claims, and real-world impact. AI Diatribe delivers sharp insights that cut through the noise. Follow for bold takes, fresh perspectives, and the occasional AI rant.

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    AI Diatribe
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    2025 - 2026
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    45
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