In Conversation With Ux Magazine

There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that hits when you’re building with AI. You’ve got the license. You’ve got the pilot. You’ve got a chat window that generates whatever you ask for. But then comes the wall—the workflow that almost works, the dependency that loops back on itself, victories that only come when you quietly move the goalposts. In this episode, we talk about how to get around the wall.Evan J. Schwartz, Chief Innovation Officer at AMCS Group and an adjunct professor teaching AI stewardship, argues the real shift isn’t “AI does the work.” It’s that humans stop owning the full vertical of doing and start owning outcomes—while AI takes more of the output. That sounds abstract until he gets specific: if you ask a model for a feature before you describe actors, containment envelopes, and dependency policy, you’ll get something that passes the demo and fights you every time you try to change it.Josh Tyson and Robb Wilson push on the organizational version of the same mistake—automating fifty-five u