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Your AI Strategy is Burning Money: Here's How to Fix It (Ep.295)
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- Data Science at Home
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- Nov 25, 2025
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- 1918
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Summary
Most companies don't have an AI problem. They have a decision-making problem. Matt Lea, founder of Schematical and CloudWarGames, has spent nearly 20 years helping tech leaders ship smarter. In this conversation, he breaks down when AI actually makes sense, where AWS costs spiral out of control, and why your "cool demo" keeps dying before launch. If you're tired of AI hype and ready for straight answers, hit play. Join the conversation! Our Discord community is full of ML engineers, researchers, and AI enthusiasts discussing papers, sharing projects, and helping each other level up. Whether you're debugging your first neural net or training your tenth transformer, there's a place for you. Newsletter https://datascienceathome.substack.com/subscribe Website https://datascienceathome.com References http://schematical.com https://cloudwargames.com https://schematical.com/posts/we-need-ai_20241028