{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/68357ec21b846c88bdcd7480/6a04d2573eb645235627aa7a?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"143: The breadmaker trick","description":"<p>Bread makers don't knead dough the way a human baker does. They get to the same result via a completely different route — and that turns out to be a pretty good map for what's actually happening with AI right now.</p><p><br></p><p>We start with brioche, end up in a crisis of professional tacit knowledge, and find a surprisingly useful frame for thinking about what machines can and can't do — and what that costs us in the long run.</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Why \"harness the model\" is the real skill — and what that actually looks like in practice</li><li>The 50/30/10 split: surprisingly good, fine, and catastrophically bad — in the same tool (and no the maths doesn't add up)</li><li>Why test-driven development went from \"boring best practice nobody does\" to \"the only way this works at all\"</li><li>The tacit knowledge cliff: what happens in 20 years when there are no senior lawyers who did the grunt work</li><li>Explicit → explicable → tacit → relational: a spectrum that explains where AI taps out</li><li>Why scarcity and skin in the game are the two things a language model structurally cannot fake</li><li>Artisanal lawyers, peak athletes, and the industrial revolution: why commodification always leaves a pocket for the handmade</li></ul><p><br></p><p>For anyone trying to think clearly about AI without falling for either the hype or the backlash.</p><p><br></p><p>References</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Luca Dellanna's piece on what makes humans different from AI</li><li>Nonaka &amp; Takeuchi (1995) – the bread maker as an example for how knowledge is encoded in processes and organisations https://www.scribd.com/document/258487259/Nonaka-I-and-Takeuchi-H-1995</li><li>(Found after we recorded)&nbsp;a critique of Nonaka &amp; Takeuchi's work on bread making machines - bread maker not as incorporation of tacit knowledge, but as fitting a social prosthesis into a rearranged world: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/215439406_The_Bread-Making_Machine_Tacit_Knowledge_and_Two_Types_of_Action</li></ul><p><br></p>","author_name":"Tom Kerwin"}