IN A(i) Nutshell Podcast

Andrew Miles Davis returns to pet peeves for the first time since July with three genuinely fresh frustrations. He starts with training projects and chats in both ChatGPT and Claude, describing hours spent uploading detailed source material only for both models to confirm they can see the information and then ignore it entirely when generating output. He then tests ChatGPT's sycophancy directly, deliberately contradict...

Andrew Miles Davis marks the third anniversary of In AI Nutshell by reflecting on what daily podcasting has actually taught him rather than covering the latest news or tools. He traces the idea back to abandoned attempts at daily video content in 2010 and an early influence from 50 Cent's relentless mixtape output, and shares the surprising discovery that finding something to say every day was never the real challenge,...

Andrew Miles Davis marks 79 weeks of Cool Tools Tuesday with three specialist tools, starting with ClerkAI, a bookkeeping assistant that prepares accounts for accountants by matching bank transactions to receipts, flagging missing documentation, and drafting communications, all with double opt-in confirmation before touching any login-protected accounts. He covers Music Prompts by Scholarsail, a free tool that builds s...

Andrew Miles Davis breaks down a productivity system he has used and taught for years but never fully explained in detail, built around four decisions for anything that lands on a to-do list: do, delay, delegate, or delete. He draws on Stephen Covey's urgent and important matrix to explain how items within the do category still require prioritisation, using his own test of what would not let him sleep at night. He argu...

Andrew Miles Davis covers a genuinely massive week in AI news, opening with OpenAI's double release of ChatGPT 6 Astra, already being called the most intelligent and aligned model yet for coding, scientific research, and complex agent tasks, alongside ChatGPT Images 2.5, which promises 50% faster generation, sharper detail, and significantly improved multi-turn editing that no longer distorts faces across repeated prom...

Andrew Miles Davis answers eleven randomly generated questions in his favourite monthly format, covering the most memorable being asked what he would never trust AI to choose for him. His answer centres on major strategic life decisions, explaining that when a human decision goes wrong there is at least someone to hold accountable, even if that someone is yourself, whereas an AI carries no such responsibility and leave...

Andrew Miles Davis returns to prompt hacks with a shift in focus, arguing that as prompting fundamentals become second nature for most people, the real differentiator is what gets added to the end of a prompt rather than the prompt itself. He shares three foundational endings aimed at clarifying message and tone: asking AI to explain something as if you are a complete beginner with no prior knowledge, which forces the ...

Andrew Miles Davis marks 78 weeks of Cool Tools Tuesday with three tools recommended directly by listeners rather than sourced by him, with no affiliate or sponsorship ties to any of them. Sidelong.app promises to combine research, writing, and publishing into a single workflow, and Andrew flags a personal use case, uploading nearly three years of podcast transcripts to potentially generate that same length of social m...

Andrew Miles Davis argues that one of the biggest mistakes marketers can make is assuming AI simply lets them do the same job faster, when in fact it is fundamentally shifting where marketing value sits. Drawing on his ten years in the music industry, he compares the emerging marketer role to a music producer, someone whose value lies not in playing every instrument but in knowing what good sounds like and directing th...

Andrew Miles Davis covers a week defined by AI facing pressure on multiple fronts, starting with OpenAI's advertising business reaching a billion dollar annualised run rate in under 200 days as self-service ad buying expands across India, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, a development Andrew is openly hoping fails given his long-held concerns about ads eroding trust in AI-generated answers. He covers Australi...

Andrew Miles Davis breaks down a practical framework for moving beyond surface-level AI summaries into genuine analysis, using a fictional set of 300 customer comments as a working example. Rather than simply asking AI to summarise, he demonstrates asking it to identify themes with supporting evidence, then challenging its own conclusions to surface minority patterns that frequency alone would bury, uncovering a small ...

Andrew Miles Davis opens September with an honest review of August, where the YouTube channel finally launched with two videos live, and ChatGPT voice conversations during daily dog walks became a genuine part of his working process for developing ideas before reaching his desk. For September he is bringing his backlog of thousands of training questions accumulated over fifteen years of face-to-face sessions to LinkedI...

Andrew Miles Davis covers three tools on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, leading with a genuine change of opinion on Copilot's integration with Excel, which he had previously dismissed after a poor experience with a similar feature in Gemini a year earlier. He walks through five practical use cases including turning messy spreadsheets into instant insights, generating charts and pivot tables from plain language request...

Andrew Miles Davis wraps up a deliberately quieter August, using the extra time away from training to properly test three tools that shaped his month outside of his permanently retired ChatGPT and Whisper Flow. Claude Design handled the full front end of his new website, thestorylensmethod.com, built from a rough description in under an hour, and impressed him further with animation capabilities he plans to bring to Li...

Andrew Miles Davis covers a relatively quiet news week that still carried some significant stories, starting with new research suggesting AI written language now leaves fingerprints across roughly a third of the web, prompting a wider question about what happens to the value of original thinking as competent, AI-polished copy becomes the norm. He covers Hollywood creatives being paid to train AI systems on the exact sk...

Andrew Miles Davis continues his Story Lens video series by tackling why intelligent, well-informed people can look at the exact same evidence around AI and reach entirely opposite conclusions. Using the Moneyball story of traditional baseball scouts versus data-driven analysis as his central example, he argues that disagreement is rarely about who has the facts and far more often about which facts each side considers ...

Andrew Miles Davis breaks down a recent Social Media Examiner marketing report, walking through the key statistics with his own honest reaction to each. Daily AI usage among marketers has jumped from 37% to 73% in two years, while a genuinely striking finding shows Claude has overtaken ChatGPT as marketers' most important single tool despite ChatGPT still leading on raw usage, a shift Andrew traces back to Anthropic's ...

Andrew Miles Davis marks 76 weeks of Cool Tools Tuesday with three picks, leading with Happy Shrimp, an AI music generator that has become one of the most talked-about tools of the summer despite its unusual name, competing directly with Suno, Udio, and Producer AI. Running his standard test prompt, Andrew found it produced strong results on the first attempt, making it a genuinely good starting point for anyone new to...

Andrew Miles Davis tackles a problem that has been genuinely frustrating him, AI's tendency to forget context that matters even after hours of collaborative work, and breaks it down into three distinct levels of memory. Global memory covers broad, stable facts about a person that reasonably follow them across every conversation, but cannot hold detailed project context without becoming unwieldy and contextually inappro...