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Okay, on to you today. So I was talking to my friend and colleague Halley recently.

She was just back from this big conference.

She had been to the same one about five years ago,

and she was really looking forward to some fresh, cutting-edge content.

But what she got?

Well, she described it as literally the identical agenda from five years ago, except every single

session just jammed the phrase AI into it somewhere.

I laughed, but also, yeah, AI is kind of everywhere right now.

And I think part of why it's pervading everything from conference agendas to articles to

podcasts, yeah, even this one,

is because of all the uncertainty around it.

Some of us are excited, some of us are afraid, but most of us just don't know where to file

AI yet.

So it's become this blob hovering over everything we do.

Too many of us are intimidated by it, or we just don't

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