The Alan Smithee Round Table (“Tech vs Art: The Debate Continues”)

Welcome to the Alan Smithee Podcast in which hosts Scott Simmons, Katie Hinsen & Michael Kammes talk about the latest news in production, post production, entertainment, tech and beyond. In this, the first episode of the year the gang tackle a few salient subjects like, the increasing technical demands in post-production roles, the intersection of technology and creativity, generational shifts in career aspirations and, how AI might just fuel our creativity in the future. And of course, there’s a bunch of really cool things for us post production people to get excited about.

Show notes:
One Cool Thing
Katie:notebooklm.google.com turns information into a podcast (deep-dive conversation), which I can listen to to get a quick deep-dive into a topic.

Scott:simonandschuster.com/books/Challenger/Adam-Hig… - A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space By Adam Higginbotham

Michael:Cursor -cursor.com

apnews.com/article/nvidia-ces-2025-jensen-huan…
wired.com/story/nvidia-personal-supercomputer-…
vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/the-brutalists-…
variety.com/2025/artisans/news/oscars-consider…
news.delta.com/delta-host-first-its-kind-ces-k…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepSeek
respeecher.com
elevenlabs.io