Dave Birss is joined by The Gen AI Academy’s community building expert Alex Searle to unpack why AI doesn’t produce terrible output, it produces adequate output. And it’s that vanilla, just-good-enough middle ground that makes slop so hard to push back against.
And if the conversation about judgement, taste and the adequacy trap resonated, dive into Human Skills for the Age of AI by Dave Birss — an on-demand course at The Gen AI Academy built around exactly this problem. You’ll learn how to brief AI like a manager rather than a user, sharpen the judgement that separates good output from slop, and develop the strategic, creative and critical thinking skills that AI can’t replicate. The course even features a module called The Adequacy Trap — the exact concept Alex names in this episode.