Sep 9, 2026 · 41 min · 12 segments
What happens when Artificial Intelligence, Agentic AI, startups, investing, and the future of work collide?In this episode of ABTalks, we sit down with John Straw — Investor, Serial Founder, and…
John StrawGuest
Anil BajpaiHost
So from a consulting and problem-solving, I wanna ask this question, what separates a good problem solver from a great one?

We're already seeing that, you know, some of the math stuff that's actually going on at this moment in time.

So the, all what we're doing here is we're, we're shifting problem-solving away from human beings.

It's not fully there yet, but it's going to be, and it's probably going to be in the next two, three years.

I saw this morning that Sam Altman was talking about actually AGI appearing this year in OpenAI, and it might be a lot of PR around a potential IPO, et cetera, et cetera.

You then bring something else into it, and that's quantum computing, and all of a sudden there's a whole new generation of problems that can be solved by massive computing power and artificial intelligence, and I'm thinking about things like material science, right? So, you know, inventing something that replaces our aluminum on aircraft would be absolutely massive, and it's a huge problem.

But we as human beings, even with AI, can't really solve it at this moment in time.

But you add those two things together, it'll be much better at working through problems than we would ever do because it's so much better.

It's so much faster, it's so much broader thinking, so much more in- eventually more creative than we are.

You mentioned that by next 2030 or something in the near future, the IT jobs gonna be wiped out.

You know, basically Claude actually can, you know, code stuff faster, better, et cetera, et cetera.

So, you know, technology folk will move higher and higher and higher up the pyramid, right, with more and more experience.

But the problem is, is that the AI tech is catching them up very quickly, and is going to actually surpass them probably two to three years, as I say, the 2030 bit to actually go with it.

So from a consulting and problem-solving, I wanna ask this question, what separates a good problem solver from a great one?

We're already seeing that, you know, some of the math stuff that's actually going on at this moment in time.

So the, all what we're doing here is we're, we're shifting problem-solving away from human beings.

It's not fully there yet, but it's going to be, and it's probably going to be in the next two, three years.

I saw this morning that Sam Altman was talking about actually AGI appearing this year in OpenAI, and it might be a lot of PR around a potential IPO, et cetera, et cetera.

You then bring something else into it, and that's quantum computing, and all of a sudden there's a whole new generation of problems that can be solved by massive computing power and artificial intelligence, and I'm thinking about things like material science, right? So, you know, inventing something that replaces our aluminum on aircraft would be absolutely massive, and it's a huge problem.

But we as human beings, even with AI, can't really solve it at this moment in time.

But you add those two things together, it'll be much better at working through problems than we would ever do because it's so much better.

It's so much faster, it's so much broader thinking, so much more in- eventually more creative than we are.

You mentioned that by next 2030 or something in the near future, the IT jobs gonna be wiped out.

You know, basically Claude actually can, you know, code stuff faster, better, et cetera, et cetera.

So, you know, technology folk will move higher and higher and higher up the pyramid, right, with more and more experience.

But the problem is, is that the AI tech is catching them up very quickly, and is going to actually surpass them probably two to three years, as I say, the 2030 bit to actually go with it.
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