Silicon Valley and Oil and Gas Are Playing the Same Game

Houston has always run on optimism, spending everything to drill a hole where nobody has drilled before and then finding out what came back. Leon Coe, founder of Amplify Intelligence and the Houston AI Club, thinks that same instinct is exactly what AI needs. He and Chuck get into why executives cannot delegate this one, why augmentation beats automation, and why your own level of ambition is a hard ceiling on what the models will ever hand back.

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00:00 The perfect podcast length
02:03 What executive AI coaching actually is
04:48 Building the Houston AI Club
08:50 Why Houston is wired for AI
14:29 Augmentation, not automation
18:29 Talking to AI instead of typing at it
22:41 Cost savings versus new revenue
24:37 The real prize in oil and gas
27:54 What executives are actually asking
31:52 Banned in 2024, bought in 2025
33:31 Why you cannot delegate this one
38:51 The Burton McMurtry card story
40:32 Ambition as a technical limiter
44:08 AI as a thought partner
48:23 The September 3rd operator spotlight
50:24 Where to find Leon

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