Dear Listener,
This week Jon lobbed an emotional grenade into the group note — the new Disney Cruise Line Oscars ad — and Stan immediately struggled with his "allergies." We dig into what makes Disney's cruise marketing consistently excellent and swap stories from our own sailings, including Stan's Alaska cruise where the Northern Lights kept the decks populated around the clock.
We pivot to a viral LinkedIn post Stan published about using Claude on his phone mid-bike ride on the greenway — a near-death experience buried in an otherwise enthusiastic update about AI coding on mobile. That opens up the bigger question of disposable software: one-shot AI-generated tools that serve a single moment and get thrown away, and whether that model starts to erode the case for traditional SaaS. Stan also shares a homework angle: his daughter Lucy's school debate on AI and jobs, and why the automation-eliminates-work argument keeps underestimating how many new jobs automation creates.
We close on AIRops — AI-first RevOps inside HubSpot — a new role coined by HubSearch that neither of us can quite agree on how to pronounce. But the naming debate leads somewhere more interesting: the argument that calling out AI as a distinct skill in a job title is already shortsighted. Every role is going to be implementing AI as a tool. It's not the end goal — it's the new spreadsheet. The roles don't fundamentally change; the tools do. Whether AIRops sticks as a title or not, the underlying shift it points to is already underway.
Thanks for listening,
Stan Lemon & Jon Kohlmeier