60 acast.com Above the Noise https://shows.acast.com/above-the-noise-the-unbiased-ai-brief-for-enterprise-leaders en Shaun Gehring Executive News,AI News of Leaders,AI Trends Shaun Gehring The unbiased AI brief for enterprise leaders. Everyone in AI is incentivized to lie to you. Vendors want the deal. Consultants want the engagement. Analysts want the subscription. They're all paid to sound certain — so certainty is exactly what you can't trust.

Above the Noise is the unbiased AI brief for enterprise leaders. I build enterprise AI for a living, and on this show I sell you nothing. No sponsors, no affiliates, no agenda. Just a practitioner cutting through the hype so you can make decisions with a clear head.


Every episode runs four segments: • News Brief — what actually moved, and what it means for you. • Deep Dive — one topic, taken apart and explained in plain English. • Expose a Lie — the signature segment. I take a popular AI claim everyone repeats and put it up against cited evidence. (I go after claims, never people.) • A Thought-Provoking Question — something to chew on before the next one.

Built for any leader — Director to CIO — who feels the pressure to "do something with AI" but can't tell what's real. Biweekly. Solo. About 30 minutes. The unbiased signal, above the noise.

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]]> Everyone in AI is incentivized to lie to you. Vendors want the deal. Consultants want the engagement. Analysts want the subscription. They're all paid to sound certain — so certainty is exactly what you can't trust.

Above the Noise is the unbiased AI brief for enterprise leaders. I build enterprise AI for a living, and on this show I sell you nothing. No sponsors, no affiliates, no agenda. Just a practitioner cutting through the hype so you can make decisions with a clear head.


Every episode runs four segments: • News Brief — what actually moved, and what it means for you. • Deep Dive — one topic, taken apart and explained in plain English. • Expose a Lie — the signature segment. I take a popular AI claim everyone repeats and put it up against cited evidence. (I go after claims, never people.) • A Thought-Provoking Question — something to chew on before the next one.

Built for any leader — Director to CIO — who feels the pressure to "do something with AI" but can't tell what's real. Biweekly. Solo. About 30 minutes. The unbiased signal, above the noise.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> false Shaun Gehring info+6a108d0055b99c7f8915c7a7@mg-eu.acast.com 6a108d0055b99c7f8915c7a7 above-the-noise-the-unbiased-ai-brief-for-enterprise-leaders episodic https://assets.pippa.io/shows/cover/1779469559302-8372715b-3e28-46c2-a63d-352eac98755c.jpeg https://shows.acast.com/above-the-noise-the-unbiased-ai-brief-for-enterprise-leaders Above the Noise Agents, Hype, and What Actually Ships Agents, Hype, and What Actually Ships Fri, 22 May 2026 20:10:31 GMT 28:52 6a10b825a9d3d2ec14178cfb false https://shaungehring.com/blog 6a10b825a9d3d2ec14178cfb 6a108d0055b99c7f8915c7a7 agents-hype-and-what-actually-ships full 1 1 Most AI advice comes from people who've never had to ship the thing. This first episode is the practitioner's read — from someone who builds enterprise AI for a living. The tested take on what's real, what's hype, and what to actually do. Case in point: the "autonomous agentic workforce" you're being sold is a roadmap slide, not a 2026 reality — and here are the receipts.


This episode of Above the Noise — the unbiased AI brief for enterprise leaders:

  • News Brief: Google's flagship launch was the cheaper model — the frontier race quietly became a price war · Every major vendor (IBM, ServiceNow/Accenture, Cognizant) pivoted to selling "agents in production + governance" — aka the cleanup crew for agents that didn't deliver.
  • Deep Dive — Agentic AI, hype vs. ships: Agents work in narrow lanes (one health system cut documentation time 42%). But Gartner says 40%+ of agentic projects get canceled by 2027, Deloitte says only 21% have mature governance, and MIT says 95% of GenAI pilots show no measurable return. What to actually do about it.
  • Expose a Lie: "AI agents will replace your team this year." Steelmanned, then dismantled with evidence and production experience — and why it persists.
  • The question to sit with: Of every AI initiative in your org — how many would survive "show me the line on the P&L where this shows up"?


No vendors. No hype. Just the signal.


👉 Follow Above the Noise wherever you listen — a new episode every two weeks. If it was useful, share it with one leader who's tired of guessing, and leave a rating so more people find it. Between episodes, find Shaun on LinkedIn.


🔗 Show Notes & Sources

Every stat in this episode is sourced. Check the work yourself:


News Brief


Deep Dive — Agentic AI: hype vs. ships


Expose a Lie — "AI agents will replace your team this year"


Background / Context



Topics covered: enterprise AI, agentic AI, AI agents, AI hype, AI ROI, AI governance, build vs buy, agent washing, Gartner, MIT, Deloitte, Google Gemini, IBM watsonx, CIO, enterprise leadership


Host: Shaun Gehring — engineering leader who builds enterprise AI and sells nothing. Opinions his own.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Most AI advice comes from people who've never had to ship the thing. This first episode is the practitioner's read — from someone who builds enterprise AI for a living. The tested take on what's real, what's hype, and what to actually do. Case in point: the "autonomous agentic workforce" you're being sold is a roadmap slide, not a 2026 reality — and here are the receipts.


This episode of Above the Noise — the unbiased AI brief for enterprise leaders:

  • News Brief: Google's flagship launch was the cheaper model — the frontier race quietly became a price war · Every major vendor (IBM, ServiceNow/Accenture, Cognizant) pivoted to selling "agents in production + governance" — aka the cleanup crew for agents that didn't deliver.
  • Deep Dive — Agentic AI, hype vs. ships: Agents work in narrow lanes (one health system cut documentation time 42%). But Gartner says 40%+ of agentic projects get canceled by 2027, Deloitte says only 21% have mature governance, and MIT says 95% of GenAI pilots show no measurable return. What to actually do about it.
  • Expose a Lie: "AI agents will replace your team this year." Steelmanned, then dismantled with evidence and production experience — and why it persists.
  • The question to sit with: Of every AI initiative in your org — how many would survive "show me the line on the P&L where this shows up"?


No vendors. No hype. Just the signal.


👉 Follow Above the Noise wherever you listen — a new episode every two weeks. If it was useful, share it with one leader who's tired of guessing, and leave a rating so more people find it. Between episodes, find Shaun on LinkedIn.


🔗 Show Notes & Sources

Every stat in this episode is sourced. Check the work yourself:


News Brief


Deep Dive — Agentic AI: hype vs. ships


Expose a Lie — "AI agents will replace your team this year"


Background / Context



Topics covered: enterprise AI, agentic AI, AI agents, AI hype, AI ROI, AI governance, build vs buy, agent washing, Gartner, MIT, Deloitte, Google Gemini, IBM watsonx, CIO, enterprise leadership


Host: Shaun Gehring — engineering leader who builds enterprise AI and sells nothing. Opinions his own.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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