Ep 800: Celebrating our 800th Episode: 8 AI Truths, 10 Smart AI Moves and 10 Questions You Must ask

**SPEAKER_1** (0:01)
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**Jordan Wilson** (0:15)
Well, we made it to 800 episodes and guess what? We're still here and so is artificial intelligence. Turns out this AI thing really matters. So much so we're still doing the Everyday AI Podcast three and a half years after we started. But here's the other realities. No, there is no AI bubble. Yes, AI is smarter than all of us and no, AI has not taken 50 percent of what color jobs, regardless of what some CEO that's trying to drum up IPO hype tries to sell you. At Everyday AI, I've spent the last 799 episodes trying to break down complex theories into digestible daily take aways with my random rumblings sprinkled in, obviously. So for today's 800th episode, we're going to continue the no-nonsense trend as we give you 8 uncomfortable AI truths, 10 moves smart leaders are making, and 10 questions every leader must ask. See, it's 8 times 10 times 10 I'm not going to give you 800 random AI facts or something like that. Like I used to do when we were at episode 100 So and also sometimes these 100-ish episodes, right? 500, 600, 700, sometimes they go kind of long. I'm going to try my hardest to make this one a shorter value-packed episode. So let's get straight into it. And if you are new here, well, welcome to Everyday AI. My name is Jordan Wilson. We do this thing, well, every day. It's your daily, unedited, unscripted, live stream, podcast and free daily newsletter to help everyday business leaders, not just keep up with what's happening in the world of AI, but how we can make sense of it to grow our companies and careers. So starts here. But make sure to go to our website at youreverydayai.com. We're going to be recapping the highlights from this show, as well as all of the other AI news that's important that you need to know to get ahead. All right, let's get into it. And if you did miss our 700th episode, we're taking a kind of similar take. But if you listen to this episode and you're like, wow, this was really helpful, I think you'll like our 700th as well. Although some things might be a little bit out of date now, even though it's only 100 episodes ago, that's how quickly AI moves, but you might want to go listen to it. So we went over seven ways AI is reshaping how we work, 10 AI workflows that actually deliver ROI and 10 AI skills every professional needs in 2026 But let's start off this round with our eight uncomfortable AI truths. So, number one, single model AI strategies are now continuity risks. And I mean, the timing of this is obvious, right? We saw Anthropic roll out a very capable and much hyped model in their Fable 5, which is of the Mythos 5 family, right? It's Mythos 5 without guardrails. And I saw a lot of chatter online, you know, companies saying like, oh, you know, we're goodbye, ChatGPT, goodbye Gemini, goodbye Co-Pilot and trying to move all of their operations inside this new model because it is a step change or I could say it was or kind of is because it's currently no one in the world can use it. So that's why this is a single model strategy is a risk because we saw the US exports control action on Fable 5 So for companies that rushed to try to move all of their operations into Fable 5 from Anthropic, number one, OK, Scroogey Scrooge Duck writing blank checks. How can you afford that? It's a very expensive model. But number two, I think that shows where everything is headed right now because you have to be thinking across multiple models. And I don't know if this kind of US government export action could be a common thing. The only thing with the new president's new executive order is a 30 day review period. So this kind of export control action was not part of that initial executive order. But we've seen that Anthropic and the US government have kind of had some ongoing beef for the last couple of months. So this isn't shade at Anthropic. This is just the reality of if you can trust your entire organization's AI strategy on a single model that the federal government literally at 5 p.m. on a Friday can click and say, nope, and then the entire world loses access. Because if one model breaks your workflow, I mean, procurement misses business continuity planning, right? I did a training for a company that was using Claude models and they were trying to set up all of these complex workflows. And one thing I talked about them after the session I did is what's your backup plan? You have to be building these things modularly because if you spend so much time, you know, especially weaving some core part of your business's operations into a single model, you could be screwed come Friday at 5:01 PM when said model is done and gone, whether that's last for a couple of days, a couple of weeks or indefinitely. All right. So that is the uncomfortable AI truth. Number one, truth. Number two, the moat has moved from models to operating layers and that kind of goes with uncomfortable truth. Number one. And we actually did have a start here series on this one. I believe it was trying to do my math. I think it was yesterday, right? When we talked about AI super apps, kind of being the new wave or the new trend on where work happens. But I mean, Codex, you can't overlook that with now 5 million weekly users.