RBF Larder: What Do Brainfooders Think?

Issue #455

1 Oct 2025

I think this even split? We’re going to do this series, so please let me know if any of your C-level execs might want to be in the hot seat and teach the community what it is like doing the role 👊

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep315 - How to Assess Candidates for AI-Literacy?, Friday 4th July, 2pm BSTIt’s the 4th July so a national holiday for our American friends, but the RoW is going to continue 🤣. One of the ways company’s can become AI-enabled is hiring in already AI-literate candidates. But how do we do this? We’re going to talk Zapier’s 4 level scale, interview questions to assess for AI-literacy, and working tasks which may demonstrate it. As recruiters, we’re going to need to know how to assess for AI - register here

The Brainfood

1. The State of Consumer AI 2025 Menlo Ventures

Consumer behaviour is the bedrock of what will become job seeker and employer behaviour. Hence, very welcome to see this research from Menlo Ventures on how people are using AI in 2025. Main takeaway for me? People use AI mainly on low impact, high frequency tasks that they need to do anyway. Vendors have got to fit into existing workflows. Good reading, lots of interesting concepts to embed.