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TOKENEric and John use AI to automate the entire editing and publishing flow for the podcast, but building that agent made them stop and think about what you should and shouldn’t outsource to AI.
Is there anything you've completely handed over to AI? John has a grocery cart it can build from a recipe, and an email experiment he gave up on. Eric has a "content triage agent" that quietly assigns his team's work…so quietly most people don't know it exists.
The most impressive automation is the podcast itself. Ten months ago, an AI agent couldn't string the steps together. Today it downloads the recording, edits the video in DaVinci Resolve, masters the audio, creates the written transcript and publishes across 5 platforms. The production is better than when they did that same work by hand. John's lessons: start with a great template, and be ready to babysit it for weeks before you hand over the keys.
Eric and John close with questions for two kinds of listeners: if AI has never failed you, are you trying big enough things? And if you're outsourcing everything, what have you pulled back?
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Every week, it's a chance for you to slow down, think clearly, and ask the right questions about AI and yourself. In this episode, we talk about what we outsource to AI.
John and I walk through how we've automated almost every aspect of our podcast editing and publishing flow, from recording all the way through to posting on YouTube and other podcast platforms.
We use that as a way to think through what we should and should not outsource to AI and leave you with some questions to ask yourself. John, is there anything in your
usage of AI at work or in your personal life that you have completely outsourced to AI?
I'm not sure about personal life. There, I mean, there's a lot of things I u- like research.
Mm-hmm.
Um, I love it for that. Um, and anything that... Most things I would have Googled, like I use AI for-
Most people use AI as a basic chatbot. Others use it to automate entire parts of their job or do cutting edge research. Eric and John unpack why the gap is so wide, and what to do on either side.
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