Power BI Veterans React to the Fair Game AI Book

For most of tech history, the new thing belonged to the new people.

Then AI showed up and ruined a perfectly good pattern.

Because the smartest model on the planet can know darn near everything and still have no idea how your company works. It doesn’t know which rules matter, which ones everyone ignores, why that ugly spreadsheet still exists, or that the “temporary” workaround from 2019 is now apparently infrastructure.

Jon Perl, Tim Rodman, and Trent McKinster join Rob for a conversation about Fair Game that pretty quickly becomes a conversation about who has the upper hand here. And it might just be the crafters. The people who spent years poking at problems, pulling things apart, building better ways to do the work, and collecting the kind of business context you can’t download with a model.

From there, things get wonderfully nerdy. Custom AI. Semantic models getting their long overdue victory lap. Whether SaaS is about to get picked apart one annoying subscription at a time. And the possibility that we’ve been thinking about the AI skills gap completely backwards.

Maybe experience isn’t the thing AI replaces.

Maybe it’s the thing AI has been waiting for.