AI, Actually
Episodes
Getting Enterprise Agent Implementations Right: Completed Workflows, Not Just Smarter Models
02 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone is waiting for the next model to make their AI problems disappear. The teams getting real value already figured out the model was never the h...
Is Your Data AI-Ready? The Semantic Layer and the Last Mile Problem
12 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most enterprise AI projects don't fail because of the model. They fail because of data, specifically, the gap between having data and having data an A...
The Forward Deployed Engineer: What the Role Really Means (And What We Should Actually Call It)
21 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Popularized by Palantir, the term "Forward Deployed Engineer" is everywhere right now.But what does it actually mean, and is it even the right label? ...
How to 10x Your Individual Productivity with AI
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most companies are announcing AI strategies and running pilots that go nowhere. Meanwhile, individuals using AI every day are quietly getting 10x leve...
AI Consulting Isn't Dead, The Hourly Rate Is & And Why POCs Aren't Enough
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Every week, someone declares that AI will make consultants obsolete. What we actually see is AI breathing new life into consulting, with practically e...
Will Vibe Coding Kill Software Engineering?
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Every week, someone declares that vibe coding will kill software development. Every week, they're wrong — but not for the reasons most people think....
How Businesses Can Actually Get Started with AI
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Enterprise AI adoption is accelerating — but most organizations are still stuck debating tools like ChatGPT while a smaller group is deploying AI ag...
Autonomous Agents in the Enterprise and How AI is Disrupting SaaS
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial intelligence has crossed a major threshold. AI is no longer confined to answering questions in a chat window. It's sending emails, scheduli...
Building Software 10x Faster with AI: A Real-World Walkthrough
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when AI coding agents enter the development process? AnswerRocket's team built a production-ready CRM in just four weeks, showing what's ...
AgentOps: Why Keeping AI Agents Running Is Harder Than Building Them
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As enterprises deploy AI agents into production, a new operational challenge emerges: how do you monitor and maintain systems that don't fail with err...
Open AI’s Playbook for Scaling AI, Why Generalists Are Winning, and Revenue-Driven ROI
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The old IT playbook is officially dead. Quarterly release cycles, endless approval committees, and throwing requirements over the wall? None of that w...
Google's Gemini 3 Breakthrough and Bold AI Predictions for 2026
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The race for AI dominance just shifted. Google's Gemini 3 launch was a coordinated ecosystem play that could reshape how enterprises think about AI in...
What’s Actually Working in Enterprise AI: Business Value, Success Predictors, and Agent Ops
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are most AI projects really failing, or are we just too early to judge? In this episode, we cut through the headlines to talk about what's actually ha...
The Decade of the Agent, Enterprise AI Reality, and Why Waiting Will Cost You
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrej Karpathy just dropped a reality check: 2025 isn't the "year of the agent,” it's the decade of the agent. But does that mean enterprises shoul...
OpenAI Dev Day Reactions and What It Takes to Get Agents in Production
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI's Dev Day dropped some major announcements this month, but is AgentKit really revolutionary or just another "me too!" moment? The AI, Actually ...
Breaking Down Nate B. Jones' 6 Engineering Principles for AI Agents
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tired of AI agents that forget context mid-conversation or drift subtly off course in production? You're not alone. In this episode, the AI, Actually ...
The $10T AI Opportunity, Forward Deployed Engineers, Year of the Agent Check-In, and Replit Agent 3
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sequoia says AI is a $10 trillion opportunity. But how do you actually capture it? In this episode, the AI, Actually crew tackles the gap between AI's...
Kimi, Shadow AI, Machine Learning vs. LLMs, Prompt vs. Context Engineering, and Local Models
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The AI Actually crew tackles the pressing concerns keeping enterprise leaders up at night: shadow AI infiltrating organizations, the crucial distincti...
AI Pilot Failures, Agent Disruption, and the AI Talent War
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The MIT study claiming 95% of AI pilots fail has everyone talking—but what's really behind these failures? In this episode, the AI, Actually crew ta...
Why 95% of AI Pilots Fail, Building Effective Agents, Computer Use, and MCP
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is your enterprise AI pilot part of the 95% that's failing? MIT's latest research just confirmed what many suspected: almost all enterprise AI initiat...
Vibe Coding, Enterprise AI Struggles, and GPT-5
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is your company's AI strategy stuck in the sandbox? You're not alone. Despite the endless hype, many large companies are finding their AI projec...