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:https://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:Challenger - A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space By Adam Higginbotham

Michael:Cursor -https://www.cursor.com/

https://apnews.com/article/nvidia-ces-2025-jensen-huang-keynote-ecd262c4c55d575e41d51441f6c4ac1d

https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-personal-supercomputer-ces/

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/the-brutalists-ai-controversy-explained

https://variety.com/2025/artisans/news/oscars-consider-requiring-films-disclose-ai-use-brutalist-1236299063/

https://news.delta.com/delta-host-first-its-kind-ces-keynote-experience-sphere-las-vegas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepSeek

https://www.respeecher.com

https://elevenlabs.io