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David's Saturday AI Thoughts

David's Saturday AI Thoughts

By: David Boyle
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Each Saturday, David Boyle reflects on what feels important in the world of AI. Not the breathless hype or the doom. The practical, analytical perspective: what happened this week, what it means for people who use language models in their work, and what to try next. David is Director of Audience Strategies and co-founder of Steadman. He advises organisations from L.E.K. Consulting to the BBC on AI adoption. This podcast is a spoken-word version of his Saturday AI Thoughts newsletter, with different voices for each section.© 2026 Steadman AI
Episodes
  • The open door

    The open door
    Jun 6 2026
    David finally does the thing he has spent years telling other people to do: he hires a graduate. Ethan joins for a placement year, taken on as an experiment, because the awkward truth is that a graduate today is more capable than ever and less needed than ever. David sets out four hypotheses for why a young person is still worth it: someone has to check and own what the machine makes, managing a machine is real work, it builds judgement fast, and an open door lets useful things in. He borrows Richard Hamming's open-door idea and makes the moral case for keeping the door open, while the front door into work has rarely been harder to push. Plus three things worth knowing, three things to try, and what readers said.
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    12 mins
  • How We Got Here

    How We Got Here
    May 30 2026
    Read the full edition with all links and sources: https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/#edition-2026-05-30
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    14 mins
  • Kids these days

    Kids these days
    May 23 2026
    What happened this week: * AI displacement now shows up in the US government data at both ends of the career ladder: A Bloomberg analysis of new BLS figures finds every one of the eighteen occupations the BLS classifies as A... * The UK's data regulator has put AI hiring tools on formal notice. Sixteen organisations have already had a letter: The Information Commissioner's Office issued formal guidance this week saying that... * Salesforce will spend close to $300 million with Anthropic this year. Marc Benioff says the engineering productivity gains made it the easiest line in the budget: Marc Benioff disclosed that Salesf... What to try: * When the output goes wrong, shrink the task: Justin Skycak put it as a principle for skill acquisition this week: shrink the unit of practice until the mistake has nowhere to hide. The same rule ap... * Ask AI questions it can't possibly know the answer to: A marketing lead at a global firm told David this week she's running a five-minute stress-test on every AI tool she's thinking of trusting. Sh... * Run your day past AI before you start it: A senior leader described her commute habit to David this week. She opens Claude, asks it to review her calendar and her email, then asks it to surface wha... Read the full edition with all links and sources: https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/#edition-2026-05-23
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    12 mins
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