AI, Work & What Comes Next | Bryan Barnhill | Humans in the Loop

Hey, welcome back to another edition of the AGI Humans in the Loop. I have Brian Barnhill, who was with me on this week's Weekly Blitz, and I decided to have him back because he's part of the AI and Coffee conversation that I have, and a lot of things that are going on. Before we hopped on, he was adjusting his background in Riverside. I gotta say,

what you've got there has a very

Clockwork Orange feel to it. I'm

a movie star,

after all. I mean, I'm a huge Clockwork Orange fan, so I... I actually wanted to do a cartoon series called a clanker work orange and do it in the AI era with a, with a group of robot misfits. And, uh, I think that would be a blast. Here's a little side project for the week. Yeah, I have a few of those. That's why I keep trying to automate everything away. So I, I have a few video ideas of little mini series as I'd like to do. But anyway, like, uh, Do your introduction for anybody who didn't meet you on the Weekly Blitz. They should go back and watch that. But tell us a little bit about yourself and then we'll get into the conversation.

My name's Brian. I've spent a career in technology in one form or another. I started off as a PC networking guy, several years doing that, supporting Fortune 100 clients and Fortune 500 clients across the country. Fell into the healthcare space with a startup about 25 years ago or 23 years ago. and spent the tail end of my career doing healthcare IT and eventually into the business operations side. So I've got a fair amount of exposure into operational, if not clinical, work in the healthcare space. So kind of fighting their billing challenges and helping them solve through workflows and automations and technology as it's existed for the last 20 years.

Awesome. And what are you doing with AI now? You're like semi-retired, right? And you're diving into AI. You've definitely got some philosophies, and I see you're being more active on LinkedIn. I love that. Where are you at with the AI thing?

Yeah, I had taken a couple years off to just kind of decompress after the career pressures and now really decided I still had more to give and more to offer. And as much as anything, I wanted to keep myself challenged and creative and working in project-type space more than just making sawdust out in the wood, the workshop that I'm putting together. So AI was going to be the mechanism to do that. So I've kind of dived into that in the last several months and some sidebars of some personal projects of my own, just trying to get my feet wet and understand how it works and how to work with a single agent and now multiple agents, you know, doing various aspects and kind of working together the way I would work with a team in the past. Yeah, that's like the top

2% of the people in the United States, just so you know. Most people are not doing that. But that is who this show is for. So do you read and write code? I mean, do you have any background in SQL or Python or?

I've got some very old coding background. So conceptually, I understand design and loops and output testing and the SDLC model. Some SQL, kind of in my business operations aspects, more modifying code, not writing code and doing database schema