Can AI Go Straight from Requirements to Power BI Models?
Nobody loves requirements docs. They're the corporate equivalent of writing a novel just so someone can skim the back cover. The real question is whether you can ditch all that and go straight from "h...
30 Sep 202540min
AI Isn't Magic - It's Middleware (And That's Good News)
Large language models aren't magic. They're pivot tables for words. That's the real breakthrough — not a crystal ball, not a robot overlord, but a new way to roll up all the noise in your business int...
23 Sep 202535min
What Exactly IS an AI Agent? We Propose a Friendly, Non-Gatekeeping Definition
This isn't another AI think-piece, it's a full-on data brawl. Copilot is out here plagiarizing Rob's pivot table crusade while the self-appointed nerd police try to lock down the definition of agentic...
9 Sep 202540min
Is CoPilot the End of Filters? (Plus a Cautionary Tale)
Pivot tables finally auto-refresh. Humanity wins, but our host Rob Collie is still annoyed. Why? Because he asked for it back in 2007 and got shot down. That little gripe kicks off a bigger conversati...
3 Sep 202546min
The "Steal My Money" Lever: A Timely Tale of Data Saving the Day
Every campaign has it: that shiny "more reach, lower cost" lever that looks like marketing gold but really just siphons your budget into digital quicksand. We pulled it. The metrics looked fantastic. ...
26 Aug 202514min
Even in the AI Era, Communication is the Central Theme
AI is rewriting the rules of analytics. Copilot can pull answers straight from your semantic model and bypass the dashboard entirely. But for all the tech fireworks, the same old truth holds: communic...
19 Aug 202531min
Episode 200: The Road Ahead for Data and AI
Two hundred episodes in, and we're done with the warm-up! Episode 200 finds Rob flying solo and pulling zero punches on the question everyone's quietly asking: what's the future of data work? No anniv...
12 Aug 202528min
The "Dobie Moment" (The Awesome Power of AI/CoPilot Frontends - AND a Cautionary Tale)
Most of us have been in the trenches long enough to know when something's about to flip the script. And brother, we're standing at the edge of a cliff most data folks don't even see coming. Rob Collie...
5 Aug 202529min
