Aug 18, 2026

The Reason Your Claude Output Still Looks Like Slop (with Priyanka Vergadia)

Priyanka Vergadia, The Cloud Girl, discusses why most companies see no ROI from AI tools, proposing a 7:1 budget split for training over tools. She explains how AI has made "taste" the new ceiling, detailing how to build effective Claude skills by breaking tasks into explicit subtasks with human-in-the-loop oversight. She introduces her 10-20-70 framework for AI budgets, emphasizing the long-term investment needed for employee skilling and community building. Priyanka also shares her transition to full-time entrepreneurship, focusing on product and career storytelling, and reveals her upcoming book on tech storytelling.

Jul 31, 2026

Ending AI Slop — Thais Castello Branco, Taste Labs

Thais Castello Branco of Taste Labs tackles 'AI slop' in subjective domains like design and creative writing. She proposes a framework to make 'taste' measurable by decomposing subjective concepts into verifiable elements, countering the 'collapse to the mean' that stifles creativity. The approach emphasizes high-signal human preference data, expert-driven feedback tied to specific choices, and a 'quality over quantity' mindset to train AI that understands and generates nuanced, multi-preference outputs.