🔥 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

Raw chats around AI with the real people it's affecting.... Paul and Meghan talk fintech, identity fraud, startups, financial literacy, tech-bro promises, education, and the question we all need to be asking: can AI fix the mess it’s helping create?0:00 Cold Open: The Cliff Edge We're Speeding Towards0:23 She's Not a Techy, She Just Runs the Whole Operation1:00 Shiny Apps, Broken Pipes Underneath1:43 Why Hiring Your Way Out of This Is Delusional1:52 Crypto Has Basically Become a Casino2:16 GameStop: 50k Clients in 48 Hours = Pure Chaos2:55 Former Tech Optimist Stops Drinking the Kool-Aid2:59 Tech Opened Investing to Everyone But AI Could Go Further5:35 Corporate Cruise Ship vs Startup Pirate Ship5:54 College Dropout, Single Mum, Now Director 9:51 You May Be Teaching It How to Make You Redundant (reprise)10:06 Using AI for Everything, Including Therapy10:58 Why She Noped Out of ChatGPT Over the Pentagon Deal11:29 Is AI Making Us Smarter or Just Lazier and Louder?15:03 My Daughter Hates AI, and She Might Be the Sane One17:53 Schools Still Training Kids for Jobs That Don't Exist18:05 Kids Leave School Knowing Exams, Not Mortgages19:08 AI Is an Addiction We're All Happy to Deny19:19 No One's Asking "Should We?" – Only "Can We Ship It?"20:09 Big Tech And Governments PR Problem21:21 Dicks Win: Who's Actually Driving This Thing?23:46 Would a Sentient AI Really Do a Worse Job Than Us?25:31 The Utopia We Could Build If We Keep Them Honest