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Why humans aren't going to read your data -- AI is.

Featuring From the Weekly Meeting. Published July 11, 2026.

Michael Wacht delivers a tight explanation on why the future of data organization is about machine readability, not human readability.

If you’re still organizing files so they look nice in a folder, you’re preparing for the past. This clip explains why you need to optimize for AI retrieval.

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