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Moving from Implementation to Intent

Umony Season 1 Episode 11

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In this episode of Beyond Capture, Dean Elwood, CEO of Umony, and Alan Charbonneau, CTO, cover a lot of ground on where AI is actually heading, and what it means for the people in its path.

Which jobs are genuinely at risk and which are more protected than people assume? Why might bureaucracy and regulation prove a more durable barrier than human intelligence? And why did white-collar and technical roles go first, when nobody expected them to?

The conversation also takes in what we lose when technology optimises away the social texture of everyday interactions, recursive self-improvement, the GPU supply crunch, whether frontier model companies have a sustainable business model at all, and the governance headache facing any large organisation trying to keep up.

On the software side, UI remains the last genuinely hard problem, the cost of code is heading towards zero, and the developers who will thrive are the ones willing to become architects rather than coders.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:07 AI & Jobs What's on the Chopping Block? 
04:10 Bureaucracy Is the Final Boss 
05:54 Do We Still Want to Deal with Humans? 
10:25 Japan, Gen Z & the iPad Coffee Shop 
16:48 White Collar Went First - The AI Jobs Surprise 
21:26 Robotics, Blue-Collar Safety & the Feedback Loop Problem 
24:04 Recursive Self-Improvement & the Frontier Model Race 
31:43 AI Everywhere: The Governance Challenge 
38:29 Security Armageddon Good AI vs Bad AI 
45:41 Are We in a GPU Subsidy Bubble? 
48:55 Commoditisation & the Return of Timeshare 
53:30 The Last Frontier: Why AI Still Struggles with UI Design 
56:01 Developers Won't Disappear They'll Become Architects 
1:03:20 Applications on Demand and the End of Traditional Software Development 
1:08:52 The New Skills of the AI Era: Communication, Empathy, and Trust 
1:14:57 Beyond Productivity: How AI Changes Human Experience 

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