Definitely, Maybe Agile
Definitely, Maybe Agile
Peter Maddison and Dave Sharrock
AI in the Real World, Not the Demo
35 minutes Posted Mar 12, 2026 at 8:00 pm.
Welcome And Guest Introduction
Leaving Tesla For AI Safety
Robotics Roots And Hands-On Builds
Real-World AI Evaluations Explained
Seeing Exponential Progress Clearly
Will AI Replace Developers
Validation, Testing, And Better Requirements
Reliability As The Adoption Bottleneck
Society, Law, And Safer Deployment Paths
When Deterministic Beats AI
Skills That Matter In AI Teams
Three Takeaways And Closing
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Most conversations about AI focus on what it can do in a controlled setting. This one doesn't. Callum Sharrock spends his days deploying AI systems in real environments, watching them succeed and fail in ways no simulation predicted, and reporting what he finds. His conclusion? The trend line is steeper than most people realize, and snapshot thinking is getting a lot of organizations into trouble. Peter Maddison and Dave Sharrock dig into why reliability, not capability, is the real adoption ...