Human x Intelligent

Send us an email! Backend engineer Liliana Pereira shares how she went from wanting to be an archaeologist to building systems that move data at scale. She tells the story of the bug AI couldn't solve, explains why we should think critically about the tools we rely on, and shares what makes a system worth trusting. She also gives her advice for anyone choosing a career: pick something you'd happily do eight hours a day. Find Liliana's work at LilianaPereira.dev. -- Follow the guest 🌐 Websi...

Send us an email! If AI makes it faster to write code, what happens to the product manager's job? I asked Rich Mironov, who has worked in software product management for 40 years and writes about it at mironov.com. Rich walks through his math on why shipping ten times as many products into the same market does not create ten times as many winners. The same buyers are still looking for software, so four wins out of ten becomes four wins out of a hundred. We talk about the difference between e...

Send us an email! Toju Duke has worked in AI long before the hype. In this episode of Human x Intelligent, she explains why so many of us handed our judgment to AI without asking how it works, and how to take it back. We talk about automation bias, dependency and cognitive surrender; why she never goes to AI first, how to fact-check without drowning in it and what she calls AI-inflicted burnout. Her answer to the closing question: be more kind. About Toju: named one of the top leaders in AI...

Send us an email! What should you hand to AI and what should you keep for yourself? Human x Intelligent is back!! In this solo episode, I explain the delay (imagine a dinner party with the table set and an oven that refuses to cooperate) and share the question at the heart of this season: what do we keep? AI can help with drafts, summaries and the first pass of our work. But deciding what matters, what's true and what we're willing to put our name on is still ours. And sometimes a task turn...

Send us an email! The more people trusted AI on a task, the less critical thinking they said they did on it. Season 3 of Human x Intelligent starts here, with an eight-minute premiere on where your judgment still matters. I opened the season with a short solo episode, because the real conversations start next Monday. Here I look at what's happening in the market right now, what I mean by the human moat and what this season will look like, including an app I'm building called Human Plus. And I...