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Episode 11: AI Is Only as Good as Its Context: 2026 MAICON Recap
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Jonathan Danz just got back from the 2026 Marketing AI Conference (MAICON) in Cleveland with Aaron Gooden, full stack developer and ad ops strategist, and Pat Strader, founder and chief innovation officer at Digital Relativity. After presenting conference takeaways during the weekly all-team meeting, the AI notetaker that recorded their team debrief called it “MCON” the whole way through. That mistake sets up the episode: AI output is only as useful as the person who knows enough to catch what’s wrong.
Pat is on his fourth MAICON and Aaron his third. Both describe how the…
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