🔥 Is AI the biggest scam of our generation, or the key to your freedom?

Tech consultant Dom and entrepreneur Paul go deep on why the AI hype cycle is starting to feel like a crypto pump-and-dump, why big tech is buying computers that don't exist yet, and what the AI backlash is actually about. They also dig into why indie builders, bold creators and general misfits are the only ones who can save us... and why doing unreasonable and unhinged things (like carrier pigeon apps or the microtonal music of Angine de Poitrine) might be the most rational career move you can make.

A spicy, ranty, and ultimately hopeful chat about ai, big tech, creativity, and finding your tribe.

⏱ Chapters:

0:00 🎯 "AI is gonna take your job" — and why that's the real provocation

0:44 🧑‍💻 From coder to startup coach — Dom's accidental career

1:51 💡 "You can't code your way out of every problem"

2:05 😱 Why everyone is terrified to sell (and how to fix it)

3:43 🎤 The Dunning-Kruger trap — deluded or just crippled by doubt?

5:18 🏛️ Big tech monopoly: are 10 men really controlling all technology?

5:56 🤖 "AI will be the largest corporate welfare payout in history"

7:05 🎵 What Spotify did to music — and why it broke the game for everyone

9:32 📈 The AI hype cycle is a crypto pump-and-dump in disguise

10:30 🧠 LLMs are just word predictors — why that actually matters

12:32 💸 Anthropic's $1 trillion valuation & the chips that don't exist yet

14:00 🎨 "The making of IS the ad" — why craft is the new competitive moat

15:30 🎸 Angine de Poitrine, microtonal music & what AI can never feel

17:00 🏕️ Find your tribe — the indie game dev model for tech founders

20:10 🎸 "Without the welfare state, there'd be no Beatles"

21:20 🏛️ The collapse of the liberal centre — nobody's getting any omelettes

25:17 😤 Why people vote for extremes (it's not what you think)

27:55 🛠️ DHH quit AWS, saved $2.5M — the outage hit the same day

28:40 💭 Hope: creativity, mischief, and doing unreasonable things