#16: Safety in AI Systems
AI safety is becoming critical as businesses adopt intelligent systems. Dustin and Andy explore guardrails, reliability, and how to deploy AI responsibly.
#14: AI, Mastery, and Taste
Dustin and Andy explore why mastery, taste, and critical thinking still matter as AI automates work and reshapes learning, quality, and business strategy.
#13: The Future of Work Is a 4-Day Work Week
Dustin and Andy discuss how AI enables a four-day work week by automating low-value tasks and focusing on deep, creative work that drives better business outcomes.
#12: AI is Normal Technology
Dustin and Andy explain why AI is normal technology, how adoption really works, and where human judgment still matters in business and software.
#11: AI Skepticism, Prompting, & the Reality of Getting It Right
Dustin and Andy explore AI skepticism, better prompting, OpenAI’s 5.2 model, and why human-in-the-loop workflows are key to using AI effectively.
#10: Holiday Chat: Where AI Is Heading in 2026
Dustin and Andy share holiday reflections and predictions for AI in 2026, covering model competition, agentic shopping, DeepSeek risks, and future business workflows.
#9: Real Strategies for AI for Businesses – with Travis Adney
Dustin and Andy talk with Travis Adney about real AI strategies for businesses, from decentralizing AI to building team skills, workflows, and future-ready processes.
#8: What is Context Engineering
Dustin and Andy explain context engineering — how AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude use real data, skills, and MCPs to deliver smarter business results.
AI Word of the Day: Agentic
You may have heard the word “agent” or “agentic” when talking about AI, especially with the new ChatGPT agentic model that was released in June 2025. But what does “agentic” actually mean? Merriam-Webster defines agentic this way: someone or something capable of achieving outcomes independently (“functioning like an agent”) or possessing such ability, means, or power. When you are talking about an “agentic AI”, that means it's not just chatting with you, but is empowered as an agent to take action in the real world. An agent can do things like navigate websites, filter results, prompt you to log in securely when needed, conduct analysis, and even deliver editable slideshows and spreadsheets that summarize its findings. When demonstrating the new ChatGPT agent model, Sam Altman and his crew at OpenAI showed how it could do a complex task like making travel bookings. Another great example was ordering cupcakes for an office party by giving the AI agent the dietary requirements and budget for it to research and order the cupcakes. We think a key thing to note, however, [...]
