🎙 The Unhype AI Podcast

With Stuart Winter-Tear & Vin Vashishta

Cutting through AI hype with sharp takes, bad jokes, and the occasional scar from the frontlines.

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Episode 11 – Proof-Free Consulting, Workslop & Scheming AI

Slide factories are dying, but scheming robots are alive and well.
We cover HBR’s viral “workslop,” McKinsey’s ROI misses, EY’s plagiarism problem, “learning on your dime,” plus jobs, retraining, robotics, scheming models, and why plausible deniability makes people more likely to lie.

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Episode 10 – Double digits

Apple cured insomnia. Oracle turned into the Empire Strikes Back. Agents are applying for jobs (literally). And I’m writing a book.

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Episode 9 – Still no sobbing in the corner. Yet...

We broke the Meta story before Business Insider and Bloomberg. We laugh at Grok’s anime obsession, but the throughline is clear:
Clarity beats hype. Human insight is still premium. Workflow > vibes.

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Episode 8 – Moving update: Marmite & Monmouth

Negative sleep, empty house, Starlink dish. Vin and I still cover robotaxis, GPT-5 blunders, and why “explainability” is mostly theatre.

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Episode 7 – The Snark Awakens

From GPT-5’s human paradox to “Clankers” to corporate breakup letters - welcome to AI’s awkward teenage years.

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Episode 6 – Surprisingly not too miserable

Geopolitics, layoffs, lock-in, and Chipotle doing AI right - one of our sharpest episodes yet.

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Episode 5 – AI, power & the illusion of progress

US doctrine, China recalibration, EU stagnation - and why synthesis, not memory, defines real value in the AI era.

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Episode 4 – Agents, Apple iSentience™ & imploding partnerships

OpenAI picks Google Cloud, CEOs get fired over failed AI, and yes - we announce Apple iSentience™ (satire… mostly).

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Episode 3 – Calling it like it is (and paying the price)

Consultants selling AI dreams, offshore firms optimised into irrelevance, and “innovation” as performance art - we went there.

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Episode 2 – Strap on an agent

Enterprise AI promises to automate dysfunction. We torch hype-fatigue, cheat-sheet despair, and job specs built on hope.

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Episode 1 – Not your usual AI podcast

Two GenXers, one Zoom call, zero tolerance for AI bullshit. Big Tech myths, consultant cults, shadow AI - and plenty of gallows humour.

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