Explore every episode of the podcast Confession of a Tech Optimist with David Laborieux
| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
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| My Confession: I Think AI Will Kill SAP Consulting | 26 juin 2026 | 00:08:13 | |
SAP consultants bill $400 an hour. AI can read an entire system config in four seconds. So what exactly are we still paying for? In this debut episode of Confessions of a Tech Optimist, your host goes head-to-head with Dr. Sarah Chen, enterprise transformation expert, S/4HANA veteran with 15 years across three continents, and someone who has told more clients uncomfortable truths than she can count. The debate: will AI replace SAP consultants, or just make them more powerful? What you'll hear: Why AI automating the "documented stuff" might be the least of consultants' worries The "throat to choke" argument and why enterprises still need a human to own the risk Clean core, RISE with SAP, and why SAP itself may be draining the swamp consultants live in The farm team problem: if AI kills junior consultants, where do future seniors come from? The one argument that actually stopped the optimist in his tracks No clean resolution. No easy answers. Just two people who disagree and one confession each at the end. If your job flashed before your eyes during this episode… good. That means it worked. 🎙️ Subscribe to Confessions of a Tech Optimist on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Leave a review and share this episode with the SAP consultant in your life. Or the AI eyeing their job. | |||
| My Confession: I Was Wrong About the Death of the Password | 26 juin 2026 | 00:04:59 | |
Five billion passkeys are now in use worldwide. So why is the password, the thing every expert has declared dead for thirty years, still very much alive? In this solo episode of Confessions of a Tech Optimist, David digs into the great passwordless revolution of 2026: the FIDO Alliance milestone, the eye-watering credential leaks, and the awkward gap between "passkeys have won" and "you still typed six passwords today." As a tech optimist, David wanted this to be a victory lap. It turned into something more honest. What you'll hear: » Why 90% of people now know what a passkey is, but fewer than half actually use one » The largest credential leak ever recorded, and what it really says about passwords » How Google, Amazon, and Microsoft quietly moved a billion-plus logins off passwords » The uncomfortable catch nobody markets: what happens when you lose the device » David's confession about why "the password is dead" was always a little too convenient Passwords aren't dead. They're just dying slowly enough that we stopped noticing. 🎙️ Subscribe to Confessions of a Tech Optimist on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Leave a review, and share this with the person in your life still using the same password for everything. | |||