Freestyle Fridays - Big AI, Bigger Layoffs, Same Old Problems?

Update: 2025-07-25

Description

In this episode, I unpack how Big Tech is using massive AI investment to justify mass layoffs. All of this AI projects keep failing for the same reasons every other tech wave and IT project has: bad data, org problems, etc. Will AI be different?

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