Production Viability with Andreas Welsch, Maya Mikhailov, and Doug Shannon

This week, host Andreas Welsch brought together Maya Mikhailov, cofounder and CEO of Savvi AI, and Doug Shannon, generative AI and intelligent automation leader, to cover four developments shaping how organizations build with and buy into AI: OpenAI’s push into personal finance, the role of metacognition in AI-assisted technical work, the growing backlash against token-based productivity metrics, and the new role of forward-deployed engineer.Maya reframed OpenAI's move into personal finance as an intent-harvesting play, explaining how transaction data combined with chat history gives AI companies a portrait of consumers that banks, advertisers, and anyone selling attention will pay dearly for. Doug made the case for metacognition as a professional skill: AI systems are designed to find the mean and that the human's job is to know when the mean is good enough and when it isn't. The panel then examined the limits of tokenmaxxing and discussed why the shift to usage-based pricing will force a reckoning that internal policy never quite managed. All this, plus a warning about intellectual surrender and IP, the problems with the forward-deployed engineer model, and why organizational knowledge is the key to successfully deploying AI. Watch now.