It's Not the End of the World: Everyday Use Cases for AI
Down to earth conversations about AI. This is a podcast about how real people are actually using AI — not in theory, not in the headlines, but in their everyday work. From teachers to developers, lawyers to writers, students to entrepreneurs, we talk to people across industries about what's working and what's not. Because yes—life might be about to change as we know it. But right now, in this moment, a fascinating tool has been invented. And we want to figure out how to use it. After all, it’s not the end of the world… yet.
38 Weeks Pregnant and Building Her First App | Emma Mondolino
Emma Mondalino has spent her career translating between marketing, creative, and revenue teams at some of the biggest platforms in tech — Twitter, Pinterest, Nextdoor, Media Link, and UTA. But this conversation goes beyond the boardroom. At 38 weeks pregnant and navigating guardianship for her father with dementia, Emma is using AI to bridge her professional and personal worlds in ways most people haven't thought of yet. From conditioning Gemini to nag her about a dream project, to building her first app on Replit.
Referenced in this episode:
Claude — https://claude.ai Claude Code — https://docs.a...
How Vibe Coding Is Changing Startups w/ Mike Molinet PLUS ChatGPT 5.4 Test
This week we kick off with a look at ChatGPT 5.4 — is it any good? I put it head to head with Claude on a basic intelligence test and a spreadsheet task. Plus, the OpenAI/Anthropic controversy over Pentagon contracts, autonomous weapons, and what it means for which AI you choose to use.
Then we sit down with Mike Molinet — Stanford MBA, mechanical engineer, and co-founder of Branch, a company he built the old-fashioned way in 2014 with a team of developers, venture funding, and 18 months of grind. Today, he and his non-technical co-founder are building their next...
Faith, The Machine Average & Staying Human in the Age of AI w/ Abhijith Ravinutala
Guest: Abhijith Ravinutala — Writer, ex-futurist at Deloitte, Harvard Divinity School graduate, author of the Substack "Abhijit Smokestack"
Guest Bio: Abhijith Ravinutala is a writer based in Austin, Texas. After a career winding through strategy consulting, Divinity School, and tech futurism, he's finally dedicated himself to doing what he does best: telling stories. His published short stories and novels-in-progress explore the intersections of culture, faith, technology, and loss, especially within immigrant identity. As a recovering futurist, he has a great deal to say about the excesses of the Tech Age we're living through.
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'Something Big Is Happening' - THAT Article and This Generation's iPhone Moment w/ Chad Stoller, PMG
Chad and Bobby dive into the viral developer article "Something Big Is Happening," the impending shift towards a zero-click search ecosystem, and the ethical dilemmas of treating AI like a therapist when it's funded by ad dollars. Plus, Bobby shares how Claude completely automated complex logistics for an 11-location international shoot, and Chad reveals his top tips for persona prompting—and how he used ChatGPT to hack his way to American Airlines Executive Platinum status.
Article: Something Big Is Happening by Alex ShumerGuest: Chad Stoller, Global Head of Media at PMGTools Disc...The Omniscient Classroom Assistant | feat. Luyen Chou, CEO of Dewey Learn
Can AI actually make us more human? In this episode, Bobby sits down with Luyen Chou, CEO of Dewey Learn, to discuss how multimodal AI is revolutionizing the classroom.
Dewey Learn utilizes advanced multimodal AI to observe teaching practices and improve student outcomes. Luyen shares high-level insights on how startups can leverage "Agentic AI" to supercharge development, and why paying for your LLM subscription is the best investment you can make this year.
Timestamps
00:00 – Intro: Why cameras in classrooms used to be taboo.
01:19 – Luyen’s background: From 1989 teacher to AI pioneer.
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AI in Architecture: Leveling the Playing Field with Peter Williams
Peter Williams is a UK-qualified architect working in Vancouver, Canada for the past 7 years. Peter is a Project Architect for a large North American practice and also completes projects and competitions under his own studio, K1 Architecture. He has been exploring AI use in architecture for the past couple of years and found success with tools at masterplanning stages, visualization tools in concept design, and regulatory checking. If anyone would like to know more about his AI successes and failures, or the process of relocating abroad as an architect, feel free to reach out via his website or LinkedIn.<...
AI Strategy, AI Visibility, and Financial Planning using Claude, with Andrew Bloom
Is SEO dead? In this episode, Bobby sits down with tech veteran Andrew Bloom (Getty Images, SpotRunner, BrandLight) to discuss the massive shift from Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to AI Engine Optimization (AEO).
As consumers swap Google for ChatGPT and Claude, the "blue link" is disappearing—and with it, the traditional ways businesses track success. Andrew explains the concept of "AI Visibility," why the "death of the click" is terrifying advertisers, and what the inevitable future of ads inside your favorite chatbots will look like.
Plus, we get practical: Andrew shares his personal "su...
13 Practical AI Use Cases, From Reverse Engineering Recipes to Fixing the Toilet
NOTE: Use-case 2 and use-case 13 feature visual elements. The rest of the show is completely audio friendly.
This episode is all about real-world applications for AI.
In Part 2 of our 2025 Recap, host Bobby Miklausic has curated the most practical, "everyday" stories from the last 13 episodes. We are moving beyond the hype to see exactly how doctors, lawyers, business owners, and parents are using AI to solve actual problems.
From fighting negligence claims with a "ChatGPT Attorney" to reverse-engineering family recipes and planning group trips...
#014 - Get the most out of AI and LLMs. Practical tips and functions from 2025.
We covered a lot of ground in 2025. From "Vibe Coding" to "AI Attorneys," we have spoken to guests across 13 episodes about how they are using artificial intelligence.
In this special recap episode, host Bobby Miklausic breaks down the very best functions and prompting advice gleaned from that roster of guests. Whether you are a total beginner or looking to refine your workflow, this will help you get the most out of your tools.
This is Part 1 of our 2025 review. Next, we will be looking at the top practical use...
Vibe Coding Workflow: Building 3 Apps in 2 Weeks (Gemini & AI Studio) | Tech Deep Dive [Part 2]
⚠️ AUDIO LISTENER WARNING: This episode involves extensive screen sharing, live coding demos, and UI breakdowns. While you can listen along, this episode is best experienced as a video on Spotify or YouTube.
Is "Vibe Coding" the literacy of the 21st century?
In Part 2 of this Tech Deep Dive, Bobby (Creative Director) and Luke (Senior Motion Graphics Artist) discuss how natural language and LLMs can bridge the gap between having a problem to solve and using software to solve it. We explore how to go from zero...
AI Filmmaking Workflow: Year 1 vs Year 2 (Nano Banana Pro & Veo) | Tech Deep Dive [Part 1]
⚠️ AUDIO LISTENER WARNING: This episode involves extensive screen sharing, video breakdowns, and visual comparisons. While you can listen along, this episode is best experienced as a video on Spotify or YouTube.
In this episode of It's Not the End of the World: Everyday Usecases for AI, Bobby (Creative Director) and Luke (Senior Motion Graphics Artist) look at the rapid advancements in AI filmmaking over the past year. They also explore vibe-coding and the various apps Bobby has built with limited coding experience.
A Note on the Format: This was...
#011 - Luke Crowe (VP at Backstage.com): AI, casting and why it pays to look different.
Is being "too perfect" actually a disadvantage in the age of AI?
In this episode, Bobby sits down with Luke Crowe, the Vice President of Backstage.com. Backstage is a legendary institution in the entertainment world—formerly a print magazine found on every NYC newsstand, now a global SaaS platform facilitating thousands of casting calls.
We discuss how AI is quietly reshaping the economics of the film industry, not by creating robot movie stars, but by changing who gets cast in commercials and background roles. Luke shares a fascinating insight into th...
Dr. Jeff Holzberg: How AI Can Fight Burnout, Enhance Connection & Revolutionize Personalized Health
Is ChatGPT a better doctor than your doctor? Or is it the only thing that can save the human connection in healthcare?
In this episode, Bobby sits down with Dr. Jeffrey Holzberg, a community pediatrician working on the US/Mexico border. Jeffrey shares his perspective on why the current healthcare system—with its 15-minute slots and endless paperwork—is leading to burnout, and how he is using AI to reclaim his time with patients.
They discuss the perspective-shifting study where AI outperformed doctors in diagnosing complex cases, why "AI Scribes" are the...
#009 - Vibe Coding, "My Attorney is ChatGPT" & Everyday Hacks - Catherine Crowe (Quite Frankly)
Can you build an app in an afternoon with zero coding experience? Or use ChatGPT to demand justice after a life-threatening accident?
In this episode, Bobby sits down with Catherine Crowe, Managing Partner at Quite Frankly Productions. Catherine shares her perspective as a "non-techie" business leader who uses AI not just to manage a production company, but to navigate parenting, shopping, and life in general.
They discuss the practical side of AI—from deciphering foreign labels at the supermarket to drafting high-stakes legal emails after a stray golf ball struck her daughter. Plus, in a sp...
#008 - Andrew Turner (Diageo): Internal Comms, "Deep Research," and Interior Design with AI
Is AI the beginning of the end, or just a really efficient way to fix a leaking toilet?
In this episode, Bobby sits down with Andrew Turner, Employee Engagement Director at Diageo North America (the company behind Guinness, Smirnoff, and Captain Morgan). Andrew shares how he went from a "Terminator 2" skeptic—fearing the rise of Cyberdyne Systems—to an AI power user in the corporate world.
They discuss the balance between human authenticity and AI efficiency in corporate communications, and why "Artificial General Intelligence" might not be the...
#007 - Adapt or Die: AI, Law Firms & the End of the Billable Hour
“It’s adapt or die… and the billable hour won’t survive.” Freshfields partner Jerome Ranawake joins me to talk about how AI is reshaping big-law from the inside: proprietary Gemini tools, NotebookLM for class actions and due diligence, and why clients are now demanding to know how their firms use AI. We dig into what this means for trainees, why rote document review is disappearing, and why Jerome thinks the future looks more like apprenticeships and value-based fees than armies of juniors billing by the hour. Along the way we get practical: how he actually uses Perplexity / Claude / ChatGPT, a...
#006 — Lesson Plans, Prompts & Unlimited Differentiation — Teacher Dipesh Patel
High School Teacher and Head of Science Dipesh Patel (London; ex-engineer) joins us to unpack how AI is transforming classroom practice—differentiation at scale, scaffolded literacy, and auto-generated problem sets—turning prep hours into bespoke learning. We get practical too: prompt recipes for physics, starters that calm a class, and how to stay accurate without losing the human touch.
Highlights
Differentiation beyond “low/mid/high”: truly bespoke tasks for 30 studentsPrompting AI to generate graded physics sets (with workings, hints, and misconceptions)Literacy scaffolds at multiple...#005 – Coding with LLMs, the "who wrote this?" problem, & prompt mastery — Front End Lead, Ben Kemp
Front End Lead Ben Kemp (CyberOwl; ex-Citi & Shell) joins us to unpack how AI is reshaping software work—10× code output, QA as the new choke point, and why “prompting” is fast becoming everyone’s core skill. We get practical too: fridge-photo recipe hacks, durable prompt habits, and where to draw the line on using AI for emotional support. It’s not the end of the world—it’s a recalibration.
Highlights
What a front-end dev actually does vs UX designHow ChatGPT/Claude & GitHub Copilot changed day-to-day codingHiring tests in the LLM era...#004 – Contracts, Prompts & the AI Learning Curve — CEO Jez Frankel
It’s Not the End of the World: Everyday Use Cases for AI is a podcast featuring down-to-earth conversations with real people about how they’re using AI in their daily work, creative projects, and life.
In this episode, Jez Frankel — CEO of Quite Frankly Productions — talks about adopting AI as a practical, everyday tool. Jez uses ChatGPT as a “smarter search engine,” leans on it to translate legalese and sanity-check contracts, and has raised the bar on client decks with AI-generated visuals.
He shares a striking shift at work: for the first ti...
#003 – From Taiwan to NYC: Using AI for Language, Workflow, and Cat Care – Editor Luna Kaltenborn
It’s Not the End of the World: Everyday Use Cases for AI is a podcast featuring down-to-earth conversations with real people about how they’re using AI in their daily work, creative projects, and life.
In this episode, Luna Kaltenborn — an editor and camera operator at Quite Frankly Productions in New York — shares how AI tools like ChatGPT have become an everyday companion in her multilingual life and creative workflow. She explains how she uses AI to communicate confidently in English, translate messages between Mandarin and English, and even learn Japanese for travel.
#002 - On using AI in a creative field - Motion Designer, Luke Alexander
It's Not the End of the World: Everyday Use Cases for AI is a podcast that features down-to-earth conversations with real people about how they are using AI in their day-to-day jobs, workflows and life.
In this episode, Luke and Bobby discuss the integration of AI tools in Luke’s creative workflow, particularly in animation. He shares insights on how AI image generation and language models like ChatGPT enhance his creative process, allowing for quicker idea generation and exploration. The discussion also touches on the importance of maintaining a personal touch in creative work, despite th...
#001 - Video Production - Coordinator, Katie Hansen
It's Not the End of the World: Everyday Use Cases for AI is a podcast which tries to cut through the hype and the fear to see how real people are using AI in their day-to-day jobs, workflows and life.
In this episode, Bobby and Katie discuss the integration of AI into workflows related to coordinating video productions. Katie shares her experiences using AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline processes, and assist in personal tasks like travel planning. They explore the balance between efficiency and creativity, the importance of maintaining a personal touch in client interactions, and...
