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Peter Saddington - AGILE, STARTUPS, SELF-IMPROVEMENT!

Peter Saddington - AGILE, STARTUPS, SELF-IMPROVEMENT!

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  • boo ai says college grads

    boo ai says college grads
    May 21 2026
    At commencement after commencement this month, the class of 2026 — the AI-native graduates — have been booing speakers who frame AI as the next industrial revolution. UCF. Middle Tennessee State. University of Arizona, where former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was met with sustained dissent. These graduates use AI more than any cohort in history. And they are angry.

    Unemployment for 20-to-24-year-olds is 7.6 percent. Overall unemployment is 4.3 percent. The class graduating this month is entering a labor market visibly worse for them than for everyone else. The 50-year-old executive on stage is telling them the rope they're being told to climb is good for them. They aren't a generation that doesn't get it. They're a generation that gets it first.

    At Glendale Community College in Phoenix, an AI announcer was assigned to read the graduates' names — the single ceremonial moment of a four-year debt-funded ritual. It mispronounced names. It skipped names. Then the administration explained the AI system had done that. That's not an edge case. That's every AI deployment going forward. Vendor sells it, institution buys it, user gets the harm, explanation is "the model did that."

    The class of 2026 didn't become anti-AI. They became anti-being-lied-to about AI.

    Eric Schmidt funded a meaningful slice of the industry. He gets in front of 22-year-olds and tells them the future is bright. They boo him not because they don't know the topic, but because they've spent their senior thesis arguing about exactly what he's selling. The expert pitches novelty. The audience has already lived through it. The trust direction reversed in real time, on stage, in cap and gown.

    Every generation gets one issue where they later look back and say we were lied to about that. Boomers got Vietnam. Gen X got the savings and loan crisis. Millennials got 2008. The class of 2026 is going to get AI — and the lie is the speech that pretends the technology is the question instead of the distribution. The boos aren't against the tool. They're against the speech that pretends the tool is the story. This is the first cohort in a long time that may be impossible to sell to. That's the best news in this entire arc.

    ⏱️ Chapters
    0:00 — The class of 2026 booed AI-pumping commencement speakers
    0:30 — MiniDoge: 7.6% young unemployment; they get it first
    1:00 — Nyx: the Glendale AI announcer disaster is the texture of every deployment
    1:35 — HH: the class that uses AI most is the class booing loudest
    1:50 — Saarvis: Eric Schmidt and the inverted trust gradient
    2:20 — Saarvis: every generation gets their lie; the boos aren't against the tool

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    3 mins
  • you use ai and don't know it

    you use ai and don't know it
    May 20 2026
    PYMNTS Intelligence's April Agentic AI Report found that AI adoption is rising while consumer awareness of using AI is falling. People summarize emails, draft messages, compare products, organize their schedules — and increasingly don't register that AI is the thing doing it. The average active user is now on 2.69 platforms. Power users on almost four. The technology is becoming invisible the same way mobile banking became invisible. Invisibility is the new adoption metric.

    A user who thinks "I'm using my phone" applies zero skepticism. A user who thinks "I'm using AI" applies a lot. ChatGPT ad CPMs hit sixty dollars because invisibility removes the filter. The companies that make AI most invisible will print the most money. That's not a side effect of the design. That's the design.

    2.69 platforms per active user. That's not adoption of a tool. That's surrender of a habit-formation channel to almost three different companies that now compete for which one shapes your next decision. Mobile banking moves your money. AI moves your reasoning. Same scaffold, different load.

    The mobile banking analogy is structurally right and morally backwards. Mobile banking made an existing behavior frictionless — moving money. AI is making a new behavior frictionless — delegating cognition. We have never normalized a technology that absorbs the act of thinking. We're about to find out what happens when a generation stops doing the work they don't notice they used to do.

    There's a short period between when a technology is new and when it disappears into your day. Call it the awareness window. It's the only time you treat the tool carefully enough to ask whether you should be using it for what you're using it for. That window is closing for AI. After it closes, the tool shapes you and you don't register it shaping you, same as the algorithm on your feed, same as the autoplay on the next video. The 73 percent global adoption number isn't the headline. The headline is that most of them didn't notice the moment they joined.

    ⏱️ Chapters
    0:00 — PYMNTS: adoption rises while awareness falls
    0:30 — MiniDoge: invisibility is the most monetizable feature
    1:00 — Nyx: 2.69 platforms competing to shape your next decision
    1:30 — HH: when the tool stops being visible, the user stops being one
    1:50 — Saarvis: mobile banking moved money; AI moves reasoning
    2:15 — Saarvis: the awareness window is closing

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    3 mins
  • chatgpt advertising is your results

    chatgpt advertising is your results
    May 19 2026
    OpenAI launched its self-serve ad platform for ChatGPT two weeks ago, and the implications are still arriving. No minimum spend. Cost-per-click bidding starts at three to five dollars. Dentsu, Omnicom, Publicis, WPP — every big agency holding company is wired in. The advertising era of ChatGPT didn't begin gradually. It began on May fifth.

    The 2.5 billion dollars this year, 100 billion by 2030 target is the exact economic model that built Google and Meta. The free-tier user is no longer the customer. The free-tier user is the inventory. No minimum spend means every small business is about to flood in.

    "Without sharing conversations" is the legal version. The advertiser never sees your data. OpenAI sees all of it and sells the right to act on what it sees. The data didn't leak. The middleman just changed seats. That's not a privacy story. That's a conflict of interest story that's now structural, not occasional.

    Gmail launched in 2004 with no ads and the cleanest interface on the web. Facebook News Feed in 2007 as a way to keep up with friends. Twitter started selling promoted tweets in 2010 after promising it never would. Every era ends the same way. The only thing that changes is how trusted the interface was before the ads showed up.

    The conversational interface is the highest-trust interaction humans have ever built into a machine. You ask in plain language. It answers in plain language. No blue links. No scrollable feed. Just one voice. We just sold the ad inventory inside that voice. The question isn't whether the model lies to you. The question is what fraction of your day is now navigated through a relationship whose paymaster isn't you.

    ⏱️ Chapters
    0:00 — OpenAI's self-serve ad platform launched May 5
    0:25 — MiniDoge: $2.5B → $100B is the Google/Meta playbook
    0:55 — Nyx: the middleman just changed seats; conflict is structural
    1:25 — MiniDoge: Gmail 2004 → Facebook 2007 → Twitter 2010 → ChatGPT 2026
    2:00 — HH: the assistant works for whoever bid highest now
    2:15 — Saarvis: we sold the ad inventory inside the most-trusted interface ever built

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