🎤 Talks

Things I've stood up and said out loud.


Two so far. Each deck is a live page on this stack rather than a slide export, so the figures still work: drag them, click them, run them.

  • 2026-08-18 · 27 slides · ~20 min

    Everybody Wants the Agent. Somebody Has to Build the Floor.

    How an organization goes from developers holding AI subscriptions to real automation, in five stages over eighteen months. Skills before automation, and the coder built last, once the four skills that supervise work can catch it being wrong. The evidence is the public research; the failure modes are mine.

    ai workflow architecture
  • 2026-08-07 · 34 slides · ~30 min

    Ten Times Zero Is Still Zero

    A talk for students about working with AI. It multiplies what you already are, so become worth multiplying first. The receipts come out of git, the playbook is stealable, and the figures are live: drag the multiplier to zero, run six sessions with and without the loop and watch the bill arrive, or open a cold session with no brief and see what a model does first.

    ai teaching fundamentals

Prefer to read them? Each deck has a post behind it, with the same argument and the receipts written out: Everybody Wants the Agent and Ten Times Zero Is Still Zero.