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The "Unlock of the Curious": Why the tinkerers are winning the AI race.

In the latest episode, Amit Malhotra and Neil Shepherd discuss a strange phenomenon: People who are sophisticated AI users in their personal lives (planning vacations) often have a "mental block" against using it at work.

The winners of the next five years aren't necessarily the ones with the most technical degrees—they're the 'tinkerers.'

Why does tinkering matter now?

▪️The "Individual Contributor++": You aren't a "doer" anymore; you're an orchestrator of agents.

▪️Reclaiming the 20%: AI takes care of the "build systems" and "make-files," allowing experts to go back to what they love—solving the actual problem.

As Neil puts it, "Don't chase what peer pressure brings you to, chase what's true to you."

Full episode here: https://bit.ly/4tfh2uy

Episode 62 | Position² So I actually think that for some of the really advanced high IQ jobs, they're going to get a hit a lot faster because the arbitrage between the labor cost of skilled labor and what a model can do is going to be so visible.

2026: The Year of the AI Ultimatum.

Oren Michels issued a bold prediction on the Spark of Ages podcast: Every C-Suite will soon face a binary choice:

Keep AI read-only - miss out on massive ROI versus giving AI write access and face unprecedented risk.

The Solution? Purpose-built workflows with "Human in the Loop" (HITL) checkpoints.

A personal use case from Oren: Use an agent to summarize 100+ customer follow-ups, check Salesforce opportunities, and draft emails—all in 90 minutes.

That's not just automation; it's scalability.

How is your organization giving agents the "keys" to the database? Please feel free to drop a comment below.

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