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Welcome back. About a month ago I was at a working dinner with peer CTOs and a head of AI Enablement, and someone pitched a product that automates meeting transcription so nobody on your team ever has to take a note again. I pulled my I/O Psychology hat off the shelf and pushed back, because…
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Snake oil salesmen never left. They just learned to code. My friend keeps rockets in the sky, and he still feels like he’s losing to a landing page. I tried to tell him why. So this episode is about that scoreboard. I walk you from an 1890s snake-oil wagon parked outside a general store in…
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I was standing in my kitchen at 9 at night trying to add a four digit number to my security system so my son could let himself in after he comes back from school. That was the entire task. Four digits, one kid, one door. I opened myADT on the browser the way I had…
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Your writing sounds like a robot wrote it. To your spicy brain, everything sounds fine. But to other folks and the AI detectors it sounds really robotic. GhostBusters In The Shell (GBITS) is a free, open-source tool that detects AI patterns and rewrites text in your voice. Not generic “human-sounding” output. Your actual voice. All…
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They say AGI will be the last invention humanity ever makes. That the moment we flip the switch, something wakes up inside the machine, something smarter than us, faster than us, and utterly indifferent to whether we survive. Grey goo. Robot armies. Engineered plagues. The paperclip apocalypse. A god born in silicon that rewrites itself…
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Everyone panicked when AI came for the artists. Then the novelty wore off, and we all moved on. But what happens when AI doesn’t come for your job, it comes for your thinking? Sci-fi author and tech leader Stephen Salaka on the moment he realized we’re not being replaced. We’re abdicating.
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By night I fight demons. By day I fight browser collisions. In today’s episode, I bring you the story of how I fought the browsers and won. The development of an AI coding assistant capable of interacting with web pages using a Dockerized browser. I overcame issues like desktop focus theft and bot detection by…
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In Episode 412 of the You’ve Been Heard IT Leadership Podcast, Stephen discusses their unique journey from aspiring nuclear engineer to computer science expert. They address misconceptions about AI, emphasize the importance of change management, and share insights on technology implementation challenges. Key topics include AI security risks and licensing shifts.
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Something has been broadcasting from the edges of thought: questions about consciousness, technology, the occult, and the things we argue about when we think no one’s listening. Sci-fi author, tech leader, and IO psychologist Stephen Salaka opens the channel for the first time. Who he is, what this is, and why some conversations are worth…
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Ten days. Thirty-three sessions. Eight cosmic horrors standing between a stale WordPress site and something worth showing the world. This is the story of how does-god-exist.org was torn down to the void and rebuilt, with starfields, glitch effects, and a 404 page that bites back.