Listeners will learn:

What “large action models” (LAMs) are, and how they differ from large language models
How AI agents are already reducing friction in Salesforce and Slack
Why AI success depends on access to high-quality, actionable data
What’s driving the shift toward small language models and what that means for secure, on-device AI
Why “agent-washing” is the new “AI-washing”—and how to spot it
What makes a truly impactful agent vs. a glorified chatbot
Dave’s favorite sci-fi robot, a monkey’s paw superpower wish, and what tech breakthrough he thinks is coming next

Key Topics:

[00:00] Intro & Dave’s blog: “5 AI Predictions for 2025”
[03:00] What’s an AI agent? Why they’re different from GenAI
[07:30] Real-world examples from Salesforce: Agentforce in action
[14:00] The importance of APIs for agent success
[15:45] Government use cases & security considerations
[18:00] Internal AI agents that reduce toil (meeting schedulers, IT help, expense reports)
[22:00] Cylon references & the power of digital labor in public sector
[29:00] Small Language Models: Why smaller might be better
[36:00] LLM Routers explained
[38:00] Fun Tech Talk Q&A (Superpowers, overhyped trends, sci-fi names)

Resources Mentioned:

📖 Dave's Blog: 5 AI Predictions for 2025: Opportunities Tech Leaders Must Seize This Year
💡 Trailhead Learning Platform from Salesforce: Learn to build your own agent
🤖 Help.Salesforce.com – Try Agentforce
📺 Forbidden Planet (Robby the Robot)
🐒 Monkey’s Paw story reference

Special Guest: Carolyn Ford.

• Dave recommends: Hawaii! Zippy’s! Spam musubi!
• Gunnar recommends: Japan! Tokyo! Kyoto! Macaque monkeys! Nara Park deer! Google Translate!
• The creepy sound of online trackers
  • Check the videos here!
• A Wave of AI Tools Is Set to Transform Work Meetings
• AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them – even if potentially poisoned with malware
• Texas Facilities Commission State Surplus Property Store

Cutting Room Floor

• Why Is the Slack Hold Music So Haunted and So Good?
  • 60-minute loop
• I Hope This Email Finds You (part 1 and part 2)
• Boston Dynamics’ new humanoid moves like no robot you’ve ever seen

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Grammarly
• Pocket
• Feedly
• Blogtrottr
• Slack
• Remember the Milk
• Todoist
• Drafts
• DayOne
• 1Password
• Bitwarden
• uBlock Origin
• Video Speed Controller
• GL.iNet Flint (GL-AX1800)
• Chromebooks
• Thermoworks Thermapens
• Radbike Radrunner 2
• Yamaha MT/FZ-09
• Anything from Tom Bihn
• Raspberry Pi 5 (coming soon!)
• Scratch
  • The Great Guinea Pig Escape
• Turing Tumble and Spintronics

We Give Thanks

• Carolyn Ford for the topic idea and being a D&G superfan!
• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
• The D&G audience for spending your time with us through the years!

• Emma Long Metropolitan Park
• How Amazon and the Cops Set Up an Elaborate Sting Operation That Accomplished Nothing
• Samsung asks users to please virus-scan their TVs
• A better zip bomb
• Microsoft says Teams now has 13M daily active users
  • The Slackification of the American Home

Cutting Room Floor

• Mining Bitcoin on the Apollo Guidance Computer
• CPAP Facehugger

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!