EP #48 The Bitter Lesson

AI agent governance and the bitter lesson: why the rules you write for your AI agents today won’t last, plus email falling from 3% to 0.3% response.

Kevin Williams and co-host Matt get into what happens when agents start talking to other agents and who decides what they’re allowed to share. Kevin connects it to the bitter lesson and to the N8N workflows Claude Code wiped out in January. They also cover security for a bot-driven company and what drives AI adoption inside a team.

In this episode:

– Why Matt keeps some bots locked so only he can command them
– The bitter lesson, and Google’s healthcare models losing to general frontier models
– Email response rates dropping from about 3% to about 0.3%
– Kevin’s four security controls: 2FA, limited cards, capped API spend, code words
– A client office where everyone had Dot open one week after rollout
– Matt’s twenty-minute, one-presenter weekly show and tell

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