Quite a few companies that have laid off staff ahead of productivity are now rehiring them.

AI is getting used as the excuse over and over again.

I

don't think we should think of it as a technology anymore.

It's a utility in the way that electricity is a utility.

It's been invented by us for the benefit of us.

New Zealand is very late to the party.

So if you don't invest in the infrastructure, you're not participating in the AI economy, and the AI economy is the future of the world's economy.

Mm

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so that, you know, is, you know, for me, is one of the most important things in, in any of the stuff.

'Cause you're always dealing with infinite variables.

I mean, you know, do I go ba- you know what I mean? I, you know, do I r- relentlessly go back, you know, a- and examine every decision I made and say, "Could I have done this differently? Could I have done that better?" No, you can't live like, a life like that.

You, you know, you get trapped in, you know, you get trapped in a, in a, in a cycle, you know, a negative cycle if you, if you're continually questioning that.

So y- you've gotta create, for me, you gotta create those, those systems and those processes where you can say, you know, th ... "Is this the best decision that we can make? What are the assumptions that we made? You know, which of these can we prove quickly or not?" You know? Um, which of the ones are the, are most likely to catch us out? And, and, and, and that's kinda the way I think about, you know, you know, the way forward.

Yeah.