Alex is an AI engineer, facilitator, and serial career-reinventor. He was one of the first people he knows of to lose a career to AI: a technical translator in 2008–2010, edged out by machine translation before most of the industry saw it coming. He went back into engineering (NLP, then ML, then AI engineering), fell in love with Python at the right time, and now leads AI work for products in medical affairs and therapy, after early-NLP and Siri localization work at Apple.
He’s seen this movie before, and he can smell when it’s playing again.
In parallel, he's a Level 2 IFS Practitioner and co-leads IFS Collective, where he runs workshops and 1:1 work on decision-making, life design, and sustainable change.
He's also explicitly not a "warm" coach: confrontational, allergic to motivational fluff, more useful for people who want a sharp mirror than a soft cushion.
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Past talks
The Beautiful Mosaic: Aligning Your Many Inner Drives to Design Your Next Chapter
June 12, 2026 13:30
One part of you wants stability. Another wants freedom. A third wants meaning, and a fourth just wants to stop overthinking and ship something. Traditional planning fails because it assumes a single decision-maker sitting at the wheel. There isn’t one, and pretending otherwise is why your last three "five-year plans" quietly died.
In this hands-on session, you’ll stop forcing motivation and start working with your internal diversity.
Using the Beautiful Mosaic method (drawn from Internal Family Systems and 20 years of facilitation) you will:
• Map three plausible future lives, not just the “responsible” one
• Identify what each inner drive is actually trying to protect (it’s rarely what you think)
• Design a 4-week experiment that tests a direction instead of forcing a decision.
Fair warning: I'm am not the "everything is already great" kind of person.
We'll ask uncomfortable questions and push on the parts of your story you’ve smoothed over.
You’ll leave with clearer direction, less internal friction, and decisions that hold because every part of you is on board.
How Will AI Influence My Future Of Work?
May 15, 2024 10:00
Alessandro Pedori has worked with language technology since 2012, after machine translation pushed him out of translating and back into programming. In his talk at Freelance Unlocked 2024 he describes what AI can do for freelancers' work as of May 2024. He calls himself an engineer, not a futurist, and sticks to the next six months.
**What the talk covers**
- His own mind-blown moment: a student's coding problem that took him 20 minutes was solved by ChatGPT in 20 to 30 seconds. He suggests about ten hours with a good model, first to feel that, then to find its limits.
- The limits, by his account: models cannot count words, forget unless you build memory in, plan badly and lack common sense. A demo that works 90 to 95 percent of the time can impress a board, he says, but not where reliability matters.
- Four questions before you automate: is it possible, is it good for me, is it ethical and legal, and does it pay off against how often you do the task? He finds input, output and classification tasks easy and is uneasy about taking humans out of decisions.
- Test an idea with the tools anyone can buy. If a couple of hours of research do not solve it, it is probably hard.
- The interface is often the weak point. In a drugstore project, ordering by voice assistant worked technically, but nobody wanted to order toilet paper by voice.
- Where people stay useful: understanding the task, common sense and judgement.
**From the Q&A**
He expects bigger context windows and fewer made-up answers. On creativity, he says we mostly want novels written by humans, and chess is more popular than ever.
**Who it's for**
Freelancers who want a sober view of AI tools in 2024 and a way to test them on their own work.