Show Notes
No one gets fired for doing what McKinsey says. That's not a joke, it's the actual product being sold in half of enterprise consulting: credibility a board can point to when a decision goes wrong. This week, Tim Lidman, founder of Clyde [https://meetclyde.com/] and formerly of a collaboration platform absorbed into Accenture in 2021, argues that AI won't replace that function — and says so without flinching, even though it means some prospective customers will balk.
Tim also shares why he thinks "human in the loop" is such a dehumanizing turn of phrase.
The conversation moves through the politics that quietly derail group decisions, the trap of building for experts at the expense of everyone else, and a real case where a district court judge canceled a trial because both sides had submitted AI-generated arguments neither side had bothered to check.
And this episode ends somewhere unexpected: a founder building frontier AI for a living who gives his own children zero screen time, and why he thinks boredom is the skill nobody is protecting anymore.
Mentioned:
* Deloitte Canada's GenAI snafu citing made up research [https://fortune.com/2025/11/25/deloitte-caught-fabricated-ai-generated-research-million-dollar-report-canada-government/]
• • Judge cancels trial after finding out both sides use AI [https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/furious-judge-cancels-entire-trial-165715940.html]
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