Is the AI Slowdown Debate Already Over?

Brian (0:00)

Hey, what's going on, everybody? Welcome to The Daily AI Show. Today is September 15th, 2026

And with me today to start off is Andy and Anne. Hey, guys, how are you? I'm Brian.

Anne Murphy (0:10)

Good morning.

Brian (0:11)

And yeah, I've learned my lesson today.

Luckily, Andy, you weren't here yesterday, but too many processes running in the background. I had two different Cloud Code tasks going on, and StreamYard wanted none of that. So I had to get out and rebook. And so today I was like, I was, you know, panicked about it. I was like checking Claude again. I'm like, there's no no task to pop up. Then I look over at Codex. I'm like, no, there's no task over there either. Right. So just so that my my screen here, I move and don't look like a choppy mess on the screen. So that was my panic button before the show started. But luckily, it looks good. So I think we're in good shape. How are you guys today?

Andy Halliday (0:51)

Very well, thanks.

Anne Murphy (0:52)

Yeah, good. I took part of yesterday off to mop and make. So I got an industrial mop, and I've been mopping my house and making crafts, and analog activity, and home mopping and washing dishes, right? That Zen thing. And so I think it's relevant because my brain feels so much better today than it has in a while because I've been pushing pretty hard.

So highly recommend an analog day. I still worked for five or six hours in AI, but I was dabbling. I wasn't grinding. That analog activity seems to have flushed out my brain a little bit. It feels wonderful. That's how I am.

Brian (1:42)

I believe it. I literally, nothing that long, but maybe 40 minutes ago, I was sitting at the computer. I was kind of like, I could feel myself getting a little anxious because some of the changes I had made and I felt like I was going to have to go backwards a little bit, not the end of the world. I do try to remind myself all the time I'm moving exponentially faster with AI than any time previous in my life. So get over it, Brian. But you know, there's the times where you feel like you are sort of like stutter stepping a little bit. And I felt the same way, Anne. I got up and I said, well, I'm just going to go upstairs. I didn't have time to work out, but I just jumped on the treadmill, put it on four, which is like a fast walk. It's like a fast walk. And just did that for like 15 minutes through the TV on. It happened to be Amy Poehler's podcast. It was the YouTube.

Anne Murphy (2:27)

I love it. Good hang.

Brian (2:29)

Yeah. And she was, I actually never even got to the interview. The interview was with Robert DeNiro. I'll have to do that the next time I go upstairs. But I try to leave them because they're longer form. And it's great for jumping on the treadmill. You can almost always go to it. You'll get whatever part of the interview. And then I try to not watch it in other times. So it's always there, you know, because I'm always so bored on the treadmill. I don't enjoy running at all. So I just try to do a lot of walking, get the steps in, because I have a very sedentary lifestyle for work, unfortunately. So I try to mix it in. But you're right, a couple of laughs upstairs, getting the heart rate up. I have the fan on blast back here. I don't think you guys can hear it, but it's pushing air. I have the fan above me is on, and I'm just trying to cool down. I was like, man, I hope I don't have sweat marks as I'm getting on The Daily AI Show this morning. But I do feel better. The whole point of it is I do feel better and I feel like recharged and all it took was 15 minutes.

More of that, I think you got the right idea.

Would they already exist? I know going way back, there was always dude ranches and disconnecting and these things. But that has got to be, I don't know who's running these places, like these getaway camps, whatever, it's yoga retreats or whatever it is. But I imagine their business has to be up in the age of.

Anne Murphy (3:42)

Yeah, I mean, that's why, like I told you guys that we shifted our other business, we do campaign consulting, fundraising, campaign consulting, shifted it to only third spaces. Only libraries, only parks, only discovery centers, only museums, only other third spaces, not work, not home. Because that's what is happening, is everyone wants to be together. And if you can provide a container for that, that's what municipalities need, that's what nonprofits need, that's what we as humans need, private individuals. So like, yeah, I think it's gonna be a lot about analog, a lot about getting away from our computers, getting away from is gonna have, that's now gonna be getting away from our home, away from our wearables. Like when people walk into a yoga retreat, they're gonna have like 15 things to drop at the door.