Sudip Roy

Optimised Out

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Optimised Out is a podcast about what AI does to systems, incentives, and people. Each episode explores the second-order effects of optimisation-from automation and outsourcing to policy, power, and unintended consequences. The ideas, analysis, and perspectives are original. This podcast uses AI as a production tool, not as a source of thought. Because the real story is not what technology can do. It is what it quietly replaces.

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Sudip Roy

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Honey and Dung 31.03.2026 18:12

Everyone is worried about the wrong thing. The conversation about AI and jobs has focused on automation displacing skilled, grounded, consequential workers. This episode argues the disruption went the other way first. AI did not replace the people who build things. It replaced the people who explain them, and then it got better at it than they were. Alex and Priya work through the argument, push b...