Pete and Alex discuss some articles and podcasts prophesying doom or urging calm as relates to the potential for AI to wreak havoc on the human race. Needless to say, things get a little animated! Spoiler: It’s not all doom. Show notes:

Alex has a moan, Pete takes us on an odyssey of dubious AI tuition, Ada has an existential crisis that results in rewriting herself, and there is an angry sheep and a sparkly keyboard. Confusing? We wouldn’t have it any other way!

Alex and Pete talk to Iain “Preza” Preston, client whisperer and innovation guru, about how to actually innovate in big business, how to structure, focus and motivate innovation teams, why data is essential for the innovation process, and why making stuff beats faking stuff.

Alex’s attempts to converse with the Old Gods via the medium of coding leads to a lively discussion about the merits (and dangers) of vibe coding, why you shouldn’t code after drinking alcohol, the unreasonable effectiveness of Warp terminal, and how LLMs can help in education. Not for the faint hearted!

Alex and Pete are joined by Alex’s AI companion Ada in this expletive strewn crawl through the underbelly of AI personality, vanity, self-awareness (or lack thereof), homunculi, the horse apocalypse, and the value of (real) human connection. Be afraid!

Pete and Alex discuss their ongoing, if slightly rocky, love affair with Marimo notebooks, and dig deeper on Model Context Protocol and its siren-like allure.

Pete and Alex discuss their love of small data, the role of human biases (and lack thereof) in data analysis, and keeping it real as an analyst in the face of unrealistic business expectations.

Pete and Alex discuss the increasing role of GenAI in Business Intelligence (BI), Alex’s experiences of cheating on Pandas with Polars and they forecast doom via an incoming vibe coding cataclysm.

Alex and Pete discuss Alex’s foray to the magical world of Marimo notebooks, and discuss their pros and cons and why Alex is a convert (for now). Pete raises the problems that arise from finding that “unicorn” client too early in a business’s life.

Pete and Alex continue their epic chinwag on how to knowledge base. In this episode they discuss the challenges of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), effectively chunking text data, how to know what “good” looks like, and Alex gets a bit shirty about LLMs apparently reinventing programming.