AI Ain't New, Y'all Just Late

Hello my bad what's good internet people podcast nation my

name is Quinn I also go by Q but I'm better known as the IT guy that

your IT guy calls. Now without dating myself too much I've been on this

internet thing since the days of dial-up talking about AOL and net zero.

Man I was on Black Planet, Dallas Peeps, MySpace, Google Plus, Yahoo Messenger.

I was that dude downloading MP3s making and selling my own CD mixes while

burning DVDs. But recently I haven't really had a presence on social

media. Reason being it's a lot of victimization, entitlement, and

so-called know-it-alls and having a platform doesn't automatically make

you an expert and I hated going into the comments of other my friends and

seeing posts from the gaslighters and the trolls.

is what you need to do with tech and AI without even considering or asking

the question about security, privacy, or the actual steps of how to do

it where they just say anyone can do it.

Just copy and paste. So I figured, let me get up here and call cap

on the post the statement the recommendations in my area of expertise

are helping you all navigate the truth.

I'm starting this podcast initially weekly, and we'll let the internet

decide on how long my run is for. Either y'all find it helpful, or y'all

tell me, man, get this OG off the web.

Real talk, my goal is to help y'all navigate through all the noise.

Now let me give you a quick rundown on who I am, so you know that I'm not

just talking or blowing smoke.

I've created apps and published them in the App Store.

I've built cybersecurity platforms from the ground up.

I've racked and stacked appliances, MSPs, routers.

Switches, literally from an empty room with four walls to building telecom

closets for major companies. I've built classified and unclassified fiber

optic networks. I've managed MSPs, computer servers for Fortune 100 companies.

I've worked at the Pentagon, the State Department, and I've rubbed elbows

and shared drinks with a lot of CEOs.

Just about any cybersecurity role that you can think of,

I've probably done it. the reality is, most of y'all don't need that deep

enterprise knowledge. need just help connecting to a remote system, or

understanding new technology, troubleshooting different platforms that

you already have or own, and automating the processes that you do every

And my goal is to help you stop paying for so many subscriptions,

and show you when it makes sense to just build your own.

And that's what your boy Q is here for.

here's how the show works, so that you know what you're signing up for.

Every podcast is going to have basically three parts.

First is the blast. That's the one story that actually matters.

What happened? Who it hits? And what the headlines got wrong.

And trust me, after 20 years in this business, they always get something

wrong. They don't know how to explain it, or they leave key facts out that

really affect people like you and me.

Then you have the radius check. That's when we zoom out some tech shift

or regulation that's coming for businesses, whether you're ready for it

or not, and what it actually means if you're a small shop or a one-person

security team. And finally, we'll close with the fix.

That's going to be two to three things that you can actually do about it

this week. Not a 47 step framework, not consult with your vendor,

real moves. so often you'll also get field

notes. That's going to be stories from real engagements, but names have

been changed to protect the guilty.

That's to And going something bending my own kind of format before

you've even seen it. Consider it a free lesson in how the rollout will

actually go. But from episode two on, that's the shape, the blast, the

radius, the fix. All right, well, let's get into our subject today.

AI ain't new. Y 'all just late to the game and understanding it.

When I talk about what AI actually is and how you're already using it and

why people today acting like it's something brand new, but most know it's

not. AI got its term around 1956. So it's older

than probably most of y'all listening and maybe older than your parents.

There was a computer deep blue that beat the world chess champion back

in 1997. Think about your spam filter, your spell check, your

Netflix recommendations, that auto-correct on your phone that makes you

look crazy in the group chat. What'd he say?

All of that? That's AI. And it's been in your life for decades.

When you type something in Google and it predicts what you're looking for

and serves up rank results, that's AI at work.

At its core, AI is software that takes your input processes

it and gives you an output. True newer models like ChatGPT are more

advanced because they understand context and generate more detailed responses.

But the foundational concept of a program processing, commands that return

results that's been around for decades.

The big difference now is scale, context, awareness, and natural language

processing. But the principle is still the same.

Don't let the hype fool you. Now here's where I need to get y'all to really

pay attention. A a lot of y'all are paying $20 or more for more than

one AI subscription that you really don't need.

Whether it's ChatGPT, Google perplexity or 50 million

other AI providers out there, you're wasting your money.

If all you're doing is basic searches,

Google already has, has AI built into its search.

So if you know how to search with the right keywords and context, you can

get a lot of what you need for free.

Google's AI overviews, featured snippets, auto suggestions are already

doing the heavy lifting for basics questions.

But if you are paying that $20 or more, I hope you're getting your money's

worth. So how do you actually get value from a paid AI subscription?

Think of it like going to the doctor.

When you go to your general practitioner, they give you some generic advice.

Maybe they run some basic tests and really that's what Google search is

about. It gives you surface level general information, but when you need

real in-depth help, you go to a specialist, a cardiologist, a neurologist,

someone who digs deep into a specific problem.

And that's what paid AI should be for you.

It's the specialist you're paying for.

Deeper context, more detailed analysis, the ability to work through complex

problems, step-by-step and specialized capabilities like writing code,

analyzing documents, or building workflows.

Now is every AI tool equally good at everything?

Nah, you know, that's not true. Some are better at coding and some are

better at writing. Some are better at research and it's like how a neurosurgeon

and a heart surgeon, they're both doctors, but you wouldn't want them swapping

roles. Know what your tool that you're using is good for and use it that

way. Here's the thing. I see a lot of people jump on social media, and

go straight for the AI content creation.

They're trying to automate everything and get one picture to look the same

seven different ways with seven different outfits.

And then they're trying to automate everything and get frustrated when

it doesn't work. Right. Y 'all are literally trying to drive a car, but

I don't even know how to ride a skateboard.

And no, I'm not talking about the self-driving taxi cabs and Tesla cars

either. So your boy's going to walk you through the basics first.

I'm talking about things like virtualization, containers environments,

and how programs actually work on your computer.

You know, the stuff that helps you understand what's really happening in

the hood. So you're not wasting time and money.

Here's what I want you to think about.

What do you do day to day at your job today?

What are the repetitive redundant tasks, even the that you send over and

over those templates, those are the things that you do a million times.

That's where AI saves you time and money, automating the boring stuff,

repetitive work. So you can focus on what actually matters.

Now, let me be clear. I'm not finna build y'all anything or code

for y'all for free, unless y'all paying me, that's a different conversation.

But what I will do is teach you how to teach yourself.

I will show you the path point you to the right tools and explain the concepts.

So you can actually understand what you're doing instead of just copying,

pasting, and hoping for the best. Remember you only get out what you put

in. There's an old saying that you give a man a fish, you feed him for

the day. But if you teach a man how to fish, he might come for your check.

Honestly, if y'all want to come from my check, that means I just got to

grow and level up too. And I'm cool with that.

Now, before I get out of here, I built a place for all of this knowledge.

It's a community called inside the blast radius.

And it's on the platform Skool. S-K-O-O-L dot com.

And the link is in the description. Now, the foundation, nation's track

in there is free. Free is free. I'm not doing this thing where I dangle

a carrot in front of a horse and trying to get you to follow me and then

hit you at the end with some outrageous price.

What I cover in the podcast, the training for their lands, their no charge,

the intro to cybersecurity. In fact, modules one through three are already

there. So go check it out.

And as for you, security gurus who already know everything, but sometimes

you need a little bit of help. Once a week, I'll do a community voted technology

breakdown, your vote on a vendor, a technology or a head to head comparison.

Everybody votes and everybody gets the highlights, the full deep dive,

executive summaries, the real analysis,

PowerPoints infographs that lives on the premium side of the community.

I'm going to keep it real with you. That's the part that keeps the lights

on, but the foundation's track free stays free.

That's not changing. So come through, check it out, ask questions, ask

me something. Tell me where you disagree or what you think I'm wrong about.

Honestly, I love that one the best because just remember one when I'm right,

I'm right. And when I'm wrong, I could have been right.

So I'm still right. Cause I could have been wrong about being right.

And one day I might be wrong, but that day ain't today.

I'm Q. This has been the blast radius.

Remember know your radius shrink the blast, and I'll see you on the Inside.

Peace.