The AI Chopping Block

By David Stepania

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Learn what works in AI right now and future-proof your business or your career so you don't end up on the AI chopping block.

Right now, AI is used for less than 1% of the problems it can solve. We're here to change that.

Every week, we interview industry insiders & the builders behind game-changing AI-powered companies to uncover practical insights you can implement in your business or career to get ahead.

Hosted by David Stepania with tech veterans Ben Smokovic & Derek Skinnell, these conversations cut through the hype to show how real businesses are leveraging AI's untapped potential.


Episode Date
Scaling 3000 Sites With 1 AI Agent
Feb 12, 2026
Nonprofits Are Saving 12 Hours a Week With AI — But That’s Not the Real Breakthrough
Jan 22, 2026
AI Hiring From 60 days to 2 Hours
Jan 15, 2026
AI is changing startup immigration, how? (Gale, YC-backed)
Dec 18, 2025
No Job Is Safe Anymore | What Cleanlab’s CEO Revealed Shocked Me
Dec 11, 2025
Your Data Labeling Job is Going to Zero: AI Disruption & Web3 Data Revolution
Nov 27, 2025
One-Click Mortgages: How Approval AI Automates Home Buying
Nov 13, 2025
Will AI Replace Engineers? The Future of Software Roles
Nov 07, 2025
State-of-the-Art AI Localization for Apps, Right in CI/CD
Oct 30, 2025
From 1% Replies to Real Pipeline | Trigger-Based Outbound Explained
Oct 23, 2025
Bootstrapped to $300K ARR with 7 AI Builders
Oct 16, 2025
Building The Future Of Money With Agentic Commerce
Oct 10, 2025
AEO Secrets: How to Make ChatGPT Cite Your Brand
Oct 02, 2025
From Viral LinkedIn Experiment to AI Ghostwriting Startup | João on Building Crafted
Sep 25, 2025
AI Transforms Silent Churn Into Predictable Growth
Sep 19, 2025
The Silent Killer of Sales — Fixed by AI with Brian Grech
Sep 11, 2025
Ship AI Features in Minutes, No Coding Required.
Sep 04, 2025
Behind YC’s AI Agent Boom
Aug 28, 2025
From Months to Minutes: The Future of Market Testing with AI Societies
Aug 21, 2025
AI Pricing Secrets from Uber to Shopify with Peter Moot
Aug 13, 2025
Traceloop CEO on Why LLMs Fail Silently — and How to Fix It!
Aug 06, 2025
Why AI Personalization Is Failing — And How Belief-Aware Agents Can Fix It | Bryan Johnson | Don't Die App
Jul 31, 2025
The AI That Supercharges Creators—Instead of Replacing Them
Jul 17, 2025
4,050 Banks, $3.2 TRILLION at Stake: Can an AI Copilot Save Community Banking?
Jul 10, 2025
Can You Clone a Founder? AI, Digital Twins & the Future of Work — with Fedor Zhdanov, Head of AI @ Nebius
Jun 25, 2025
How This CEO Does the Work of 30 People Using AI | Complete Framework Revealed!
Jun 19, 2025
From $1B Call Center to AI Agents at Scale. Alex Levin | CEO & Co-Founder @ Regal AI
Jun 12, 2025
From Stripe Product Lead to $5M AI Startup: Solving the Permission Death Loop Killing Enterprise AI Agents
Jun 05, 2025
Why 90% of B2B Websites Fail to Convert (And How One Founder Raised $2.2M to Fix It)
May 29, 2025
From AI Agency to €2.5M Seed: How Delos Built an AI Orchestration Platform | 20VC | Harry Stebbings
May 22, 2025
From Twitter to Toolhouse: How 2 Engineers Built a Profitable AI Infra Platform Without VC Bloat
May 15, 2025
60% of Future Jobs Don't Exist Yet: Building the LinkedIn for Jobs That Haven't Been Created
May 07, 2025