David Laborieux

Confession of a Tech Optimist with David Laborieux

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I believe technology makes the world better. Then I go looking for the reasons I might be wrong. Every episode is grounded in current facts, real numbers, and the uncomfortable details the press releases leave out. Whether you build technology, depend on it, or just can't stop arguing about it, this is a space to think clearly about where it's all heading. The optimism is real. So is the doubt. That's the point.🎙️ New episodes weekly. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and leave a review if a confession hits a little too close to home.

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David Laborieux

Episodes

My Confession: The 95% AI Failure Stat Is Real. It's Also Kind of a Lie. 10.07.2026 6:35

Companies poured $30 to $40 billion into generative AI. MIT found 95% of it produced zero measurable profit. So is AI a bubble, or are we just measuring it wrong? In this solo episode of Confessions of a Tech Optimist, David takes on the number that's been used to declare AI dead. He doesn't dispute it, he does something more uncomfortable. He reads the footnotes. What counts as "fail...

My Confession: I Don't Think You'll Ever Vibe Code an ERP 05.07.2026 6:11

41% of all code written today is AI-generated. So why does the idea of vibe coding your company's ERP still sound completely insane? In this solo episode of Confessions of a Tech Optimist, David, a guy who genuinely loves how fast AI coding tools have gotten, sits with an uncomfortable question: if you can vibe code a landing page in an afternoon, why can't you vibe code the system that ru...

My Confession: The Autonomous Enterprise Might Arrive Before We're Ready For It 02.07.2026 6:31

Only 15% of IT leaders are even piloting fully autonomous AI agents. And yet 40% of enterprise apps will ship with agents built in by the end of this year. In this solo episode of Confessions of a Tech Optimist, David sits with the question underneath every AI headline right now: will companies ever actually run themselves and if they do, what happens to the people who used to run them? As an opti...

The 2027 SAP Deadline: Real Urgency or Manufactured Panic? 29.06.2026 8:17

SAP says the clock runs out December 31, 2027. Yet 85% of customers are still on ECC and a lot of them are betting the panic is a sales tactic. In this episode of Confessions of a Tech Optimist, David takes on one of the most contentious questions in enterprise IT with Marisol Greaves, a former SAP program lead turned independent ERP advisor who has guided more than thirty migrations and walked se...

My Confession: We're Moving the Internet to Space Because Earth Said No 29.06.2026 5:47

SpaceX wants to launch one million AI data centers into orbit. Not a metaphor. Actual supercomputers, in space, because nobody on Earth wants them in their backyard. In this solo episode of Confessions of a Tech Optimist, David unpacks the most science-fiction-sounding plan in tech right now, SpaceX's AI1 orbital data center and asks the uncomfortable question underneath it: are we solving the...

My Confession: I Think AI Will Kill SAP Consulting 26.06.2026 8:13

SAP consultants bill $400 an hour. AI can read an entire system config in four seconds. So what exactly are we still paying for? In this debut episode of Confessions of a Tech Optimist, your host goes head-to-head with Dr. Sarah Chen, enterprise transformation expert, S/4HANA veteran with 15 years across three continents, and someone who has told more clients uncomfortable truths than she can coun...

My Confession: I Was Wrong About the Death of the Password 26.06.2026 4:59

Five billion passkeys are now in use worldwide. So why is the password, the thing every expert has declared dead for thirty years, still very much alive? In this solo episode of Confessions of a Tech Optimist, David digs into the great passwordless revolution of 2026: the FIDO Alliance milestone, the eye-watering credential leaks, and the awkward gap between "passkeys have won" and "you still type...