{"id":6016,"date":"2026-05-31T18:43:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=6016"},"modified":"2026-05-31T18:43:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:43:41","slug":"mobileviews-podcast-612-tokens-vs-humans-w-guest-don-sorcinelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/31\/mobileviews-podcast-612-tokens-vs-humans-w-guest-don-sorcinelli\/","title":{"rendered":"MobileViews Podcast 612: Tokens vs, Humans w\/guest Don Sorcinelli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px); height: 150px;\" title=\"MobileViews Podcast 612: Tokens vs, Humans w\/guest Don Sorcinelli\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=rdfyp-1ad99d1-pb&amp;from=pb6admin&amp;share=1&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=0&amp;fonts=Arial&amp;skin=1&amp;font-color=auto&amp;logo_link=episode_page&amp;btn-skin=7\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-6017\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MViews-612-aiframe-1024x563.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MViews-612-aiframe-1024x563.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MViews-612-aiframe-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MViews-612-aiframe-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MViews-612-aiframe-1536x844.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MViews-612-aiframe-2048x1125.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nJon Westfall and I welcomed back our long-time friend <strong>Don Sorcinelli<\/strong>, who hasn\u2019t been on the show since last October (podcast 583). Don shared his deliberate &#8220;low-tech&#8221; approach to entertaining his two-year-old granddaughter, opting for traditional toys over tablets to encourage focus and avoid the &#8220;out&#8221; that screen time provides. This sparked some fun tech nostalgia, as I recounted my own experiences as a dad of a toddler trying &#8220;interactive&#8221; toys like the light-sensing <strong>Microsoft Barney<\/strong> and the giant yellow <strong>Microsoft EasyBall<\/strong> trackball\u2014both of which proved that sometimes, simpler is better.<\/p>\n<p>A major theme of this episode was the shifting economic reality of AI. Don, ever the healthy skeptic, compared the current AI hype to the dot-com bust and the &#8220;magic math&#8221; of non-GAAP reporting. We discussed the &#8220;tokens vs. humans&#8221; trade-off, noting that as companies like Google and OpenAI move toward token-based pricing, the cost of farming out thinking to AI may soon exceed the cost of hiring a human. I\u2019ve been finding ways to outsmart these limits by using standard LLMs to &#8220;interview&#8221; me and generate highly efficient <strong>Codex<\/strong> prompts, which usually get the job done on the first try.<\/p>\n<p>We also tackled some serious infrastructure and software headaches. I\u2019m currently dealing with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/29\/-tokens-or-humans-the-new-corporate-trade-off.html\">Windows 11 <strong>expiring Secure Boot certificates<\/strong><\/a> on some of my no-name PC boxes\u2014a situation Don rightly called a &#8220;mismanaged&#8221; disaster on Microsoft&#8217;s part, given the lack of clear documentation and the bugs causing BitLocker prompts. On a more positive note, my <strong>8GB MacBook Neo<\/strong> continues to impress me with its efficiency, proving that tight optimization can often trump raw specs. We wrapped up with a look at the future of <strong>Nvidia ARM-based processors<\/strong> for Windows and a strange sighting during my daily walk: a fiber optic cable hanging at neck height between utility poles, a reminder that even high-tech infrastructure can have very physical (and dangerous) failures.<\/p>\n<p>Available via <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/mobileviews.com-podcast\/id301171904?mt=2\">Apple iTunes<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\u201chttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ToddOgasawara\/podcasts\u201d\">MobileViews YouTube Podcasts channel <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\u201chttps:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/MobileViewscom-Podcast-Podcast\/B08K565TQS?qid=1640555789&amp;sr=1-1&amp;ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&amp;pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&amp;pf_rd_r=TXEJVWB2VW471GJ9XQQ0\u201d&lt;\/a\">MobileViews Podcast on Audible.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Westfall and I welcomed back our long-time friend Don Sorcinelli, who hasn\u2019t been on the show since last October (podcast 583). 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