"Shit at the speed of light is still shit."

That one line from Pip of Springboards stopped me in my tracks, and honestly set the tone for everything I want to tell you about this month's In The Blink of AI episodes. Between Pip, Amy and Kieran unpacking why 69 out of 70 AI models will tell you time is a river, and Josh Clemm from Dropbox quietly dismantling the myth that everyone already has a functioning agent army, these two conversations belong together.

One is about what AI is doing to creativity without most people noticing. The other is about what AI actually does versus what LinkedIn tells you it does. Both will make you think differently. Both will make you build differently. And at least one of them will make you feel a lot less behind than you did this morning.

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If you're building or investing in anything that touches health, you will LOVEEE this Oversubscribed episode, because it's not "future of healthcare" in the abstract. It's founders and operators in the weeds, building it live. Brendan sits down with Everlab founder Marc Hermann (plus Jill Findlay and Rowan Sood) to unpack what "autonomous healthcare" actually means, why the best care in an AI-first world will come from whoever has the deepest context on you, and how Everlab is turning preventative health into a data product.

You'll hear the unsexy but real stuff too. Why Marc built their own patient management system from scratch and what it takes to hire obsessive talent when everything's breaking. And why B2B SaaS is getting a very uncomfortable wake-up call. It'll leave you thinking about what moat to focus on improving.

From policing Sydney's underworld to listing one of Australia's first AI companies on the ASX, to sitting with ayahuasca in the Peruvian Andes, Dr. Cat Wallace has lived several lives most people wouldn't dare imagine in one. This conversation with Pauline goes places most podcasts won't. Cat talks openly about the sacred wound driving her ambition, why she thinks 95% of AI companies will fail, and what she believes leaders must do before the window closes.

The part that stuck with me? The idea that the fire fueling your biggest achievements might be the same thing quietly burning down everything else. Tune in if you're building something, betting on something, or trying to figure out who you actually are underneath all of it.

Justin from Vloggi and Alan get into the messy truth of fundraising and repositioning. How to pitch a "middleware/infrastructure" play without watching investors mentally file you under your old story.

And Ben from Aviato brings the engineering reality check. AI is unreal for prototypes, still chaotic in production, and the teams winning are the ones who can write a proper brief and keep reliability sacred.

Listen to these if you want your pitch sharper, your build faster, and your BS detector recalibrated.

Two very different startups. One lesson: clarity and memorability beat comprehensiveness every time.

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From AI vibe coders shipping straight to production to ISM updates that tell you AI is just another system (it kind of is, kind of isn't), this month's episodes get into where security has to keep up with software being built faster than anyone can review it.

Patrick Collins and Simon Harloff from Dam Secure join Cole to talk about the new reality: 70% of developers actually care about security, but the tooling never met them where they work. Their fix is whispering rules into Claude at plan time, before a single line of vulnerable code gets generated. Plus why most "build your own SaaS" hype is a side quest while everyone else focuses on the main quest.

Then Toby Amodio is back to decode the March 2026 ISM updates. The headline: AI is just another system, but how your people use it matters more than how you secure it. The conversation gets sharp on bot versus bot futures, sovereign AI gaps, and why pen testers should be cracking shells, not writing 40-page reports.

If your dev team is shipping faster than your security team can blink, you are Secured. 🔐

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