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Trade shows were often meetings of the same people every year who are often recognized as experts in their field. What happens when everyone can claim to be an expert by way of their AI skills? Will there be loyal clients in the age of vibe coding?

ASKED BY · Roscoe Jones · MADISON, INDIANA · 13 OCT 2026 · ▶ 00:57:05

THE PANEL'S ANSWER

Ability to produce does not equal expertise; true experts understand systems, architecture, and how code works; those without deep knowledge will be exposed by their lack of understanding when discussing solutions.

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56:45We've got a couple more questions and we're getting close to the top of the hour here. So let's dive into our next question, Cindy. Here we have Roscoe Jones in Madison, Indiana, asking, trade shows were often meetings of the same people every year who are often recognized as experts in their field. What happens when everyone can claim to be an expert by way of their AI

57:05skills. Will there be loyal clients in the age of vibe coding? It's an interesting question. John Wallace, how will people stand out when so many people have access to these agentic tools? The ability to produce does not mean you're an expert in anything. So I don't think that people who can just vibe code something doesn't mean they actually understand how it works

57:32underneath it and I think those people will stand out as being exposed for people who just have very high level cursory knowledge yeah I would not classify myself an expert in video production app creation I can understand the requirements of what I want as an operator but they actually be like how does this engine work every little single piece of code that's going

57:58into it why does this you know code that's changed why is it stabilizing in this way those are the experts people who can actually speak to it understanding high level and be able to think in systems that's a it's a whole different thing and you know I consider myself a sales engineer at this point more than an expert into video production so can I understand this can

58:21I do I understand my client could I sell this to someone who has a need for this type of solution. It's the same with all things. Once upon a time when I was young and growing up, the skills of being a video editor were relatively rare and only people who could get a hold of the equipment could learn them. And now you can't wander down a street without passing 35 video editors in your regular stroll

58:49because it's become so ubiquitous and their machines and the tools are out there and people wanted to learn them. So it's just the way it is. Let's go to our next question. Cindy, are you? Oops, I'm not hearing you. You must be muted. Oops. Sorry about that. No problem. Coming in from Vic Hernandez in Springfield, Missouri. Will local models, for example, run on new powerhouse Mac minis, eliminate external token usage?

59:19John Wallace has an opinion on this. John, do you think it's going to go local instead of server? I don't think it's going to eliminate as far as like holistically. But I think that, yeah, running local models is going to be a thing. It's going to also happen in businesses where they're going to run local instances of maybe models that they train and create themselves for specific business purposes.

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