Be honest. How are you actually using AI right now?

If you're like most people, you're probably asking it questions, tweaking some copy, maybe getting it to write a caption or two. And that's a great start. But what if AI could actually do the work for you? Like, really do it. Read and sort your emails. Schedule your social posts. Rebuild your website. Research every single person in a room before you walk in.

That's what my husband Joshua Vial has been building in our house for the last few years. And watching him do it has been equal parts inspiring and humbling. Every week I'd see him do something that made my jaw drop and I'd say, Josh, you have to come and tell people about this. So here we finally are.

Josh has spent 25 years as a programmer, co-founded Dev Academy Aotearoa where he helped hundreds of people go from zero to landing their first job in tech, and co-founded FundSorter, an AI platform saving New Zealand charities up to 90% of the time they used to spend chasing grant funding.

These days through Code With JV he runs courses and a newsletter helping real people cut through the noise and actually use AI in their work and lives. He is one of the most forward-thinking people I know. And I finally got him on the podcast.

So if you've been meaning to get better at working with AI and want to tap into its potential, this is the episode to teach you how.

What You'll Learn:

• Why thinking of AI as an "intelligence" is actually getting in your way, and what mental model works better
• The difference between Level 1 AI use (chat windows, copy paste) and Level 2, where AI has actual digital hands and does things for you
• Why AI is really good at producing things that look good but aren't, and how to protect yourself from that
• How to start systematising your work so AI can genuinely take things off your plate
• How Josh went from 2,000 unread emails across six inboxes to a fully AI managed system for almost nothing
• The social media workflow that took him from barely posting to 130,000 LinkedIn impressions in a week

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