AI’s Just “Good Enough” and That Ain’t Good: A Web Summit Debrief, Live from Lisbon!
The hope, the hype, the robots doing the Macarena, and more...
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Hey friends,
Here’s a special Sunday edition of CRAFTED., recorded live in Lisbon (😍) from Web Summit 2025.
I sat down with Tom Haworth, founder of D13 AI, to talk about why “good enough” AI might actually be one of the most dangerous places we can get stuck.
And Tom says it’s time for the leaders of vibe coding platforms (e.g. Lovable, Replit, Cursor) to acknowledge that they’re great for “demo not memo” prototyping, but not great (today and maybe ever?) at delivering production-grade, secure code.
We also make a few detours as we detail a ridiculous week in Lisbon, including:
How (shocker!) 90% of the conference was about AI
Why “good enough” AI is not a good place to be
Whether we’ll graduate to great AI
AI’s ROI now and in the future
Why it’s still iffy whether AI agents they can be trusted to accomplish complex jobs
Robots wander Web Summit, do the Macarena, fall down
How tennis great Maria Sharapova uses (IBM’s) AI
How the presumptuous Web Summit’s app prominently suggests we all message Maria… (as if!)
Visa wants to help creators monetize (yay! it me!), using Web3 technologies (yes, they said “Web3”; no, I was not expecting to hear a non-ironic use of that phrase)
Why self-driving cars are the best robots — and coming soon to more of Europe
How much Web Summit pampers (and corrupts) the media: I was like a stuffed goose. Hurray for Portuguese custard and other delicacies!
How even the beer at Web Summit was high tech
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Tom Haworth: Founder of D13 AI, a UK-based consultancy that “builds intelligent tools that help businesses make sense of messy data.”
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