Podcast

What Remains Human in an Optimized World?

Matthew Roberts, Head of Customer Marketing, Amdocs

S11 E6

19 Feb 2026

Feb 19, 2026
What Remains Human in an Optimized World?

In this episode of The Great Indoors, Shelly Palmer, tech strategist and CEO of The Palmer Group returns for his third appearance to explain why the digital world has become unrecognizable in just two years since his last appearance. Listeners will gain an inside look at the brutal reality of the media business, where traditional purchase funnels have collapsed in favor of short-form video and zero-click AI search results. The conversation provides a roadmap for the transition from simple automation to agentic AI. Autonomous systems that can now plan and initiate tasks independently and explores the rise of vibe coding, where English becomes the new programming language. So if you’re fascinated by media, machine learning, and the conversations shaping what comes next, this is an episode you won’t want to miss.

“You need to be bullish on AI, not because there's a financial reason be bullish. This is the Manhattan Project of the 21st century, the first one, and we're in it and it's funded. So that's trillions with a T that's been lined up behind this. Yes, people are going to lose money on some of the retail stuff. For sure they are. It's a lot of charlatans out there. There's a lot of people that aren't even charlatans. They just believe that something can happen and they're not capable of making it happen. Or they don't deeply understand the marketplace as it is. You start working on something for six months, you build a company, raise some money, and then OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic make it a feature. And you know you were building a feature, not a product, and you're gone in one day. That is the kind of stuff is going to happen to a lot of companies. “