The cognitive exoskeleton driver
An episode of the API Resilience podcast, hosted by Pronovix, titled "The cognitive exoskeleton driver" was published on November 12, 2025 and runs 33 minutes.
November 12, 2025 ·33m · API Resilience
Summary
Discussing his recent book "Not Artificial, Not Intelligent", Django Beatty cites high failure rates and combinatorial explosion issues. Thoughtful essays like "The Pachinko Machine" and "The Machine Can't Plan" frame AI as a useful cognitive exoskeleton requiring human expertise: can be read as an antidote to extreme views. The episode concludes that the true value of AI lies not in automation, but in figuring out how it systemically reconfigures existing work and value chains.
Episode Description
Discussing his recent book "Not Artificial, Not Intelligent", Django Beatty cites high failure rates and combinatorial explosion issues. Thoughtful essays like "The Pachinko Machine" and "The Machine Can't Plan" frame AI as a useful cognitive exoskeleton requiring human expertise: can be read as an antidote to extreme views. The episode concludes that the true value of AI lies not in automation, but in figuring out how it systemically reconfigures existing work and value chains.
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