
Alan Shimel
Founder and CEO of Techstrong Group (DevOps.com, Techstrong Media), tech media executive, author, and podcast host.
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Oct 15, 2026
The $8 Trillion AI Trap: Why Infrastructure Always Loses | Agents of Dev Episode 42
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Mitch AshleyHOST
But, you know, it's clearly, it's part history, it's part, um, here's pattern recognition, it's part here's your lib's story through the whole process, and then looking at where we are.

Alan ShimelGUEST
F- so first of all, Mitch, I, I always like to say, I threatened to write a book for 20-something years and just never carried through with it.

Alan ShimelGUEST
But this book, you know, when some things happen, Brad, Mitch, you, you've probably seen this in your life and, and careers as well, sometimes things just happen organically and holistically.

Alan ShimelGUEST
I, I didn't sit here and say, "Hmm, what do I wanna write a book about?" This just, this dropped into my lap.
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Stop Using a Sledgehammer to Kill a Fly: The Case for Practical, Stratified AI | Utilizing AI Episode 48
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Alan ShimelGUEST
I think we could use as much AI as we could eat, right? I think, you know, like in Javan's paradox, the more AI we have to use, the more we're going to use it.

Alan ShimelGUEST
I think the real question here is, do I need a sledgehammer to kill a fly? Because what we're developing is stratification in our AI models.

Alan ShimelGUEST
I don't need the AI that supposedly can cure cancer or fold proteins or nuclear kind of physics to pick out, guys, as you said, where's the best shoe store for me to get a pair of loafers this weekend.

Guy CurrierGUEST
That's one of the many reasons I think we say that we're just at the beginning of this, because that level of sophistication is getting built rapidly, but it can only be absorbed so fast by the humans, which, by the way, all of this is for, is for humans.
