Using AI every day, and showing our working.
Apps and books built in public, plus the AI news that actually matters.
Using AI daily
What it is actually like to work with these tools every day, the catches and the corrections, not the demo version. This is the spine of the show, not a third topic.
Building in public
Small apps and the book, made by hand, with the decisions and the numbers shown.
Verified AI news
Checked against primary sources before it airs, or held and said so.
The DailyWorks podcast
DailyWorks
hosted by Peter Hunter
A weekly show about using AI every day and showing our working. What it is really like to work with these tools, the catches and the corrections, not the demo version. Plus building small apps and books out in the open, the wins, the modest disasters, and the numbers behind them. And the week's AI news, only the parts worth your time and only after they have been checked. Warm, wry and unhurried. Kettle's on, let's have a tea.
Free, weekly, about fifteen minutes. On Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and every other podcast app.
This week: the day I switched off a content machine that had been running perfectly for nine months. Eight hundred and fifteen posts across four platforms, seventy-nine thousand views, twenty...
This week: how I actually checked the AI-built website from last episode, which turned out to be Claude checking Claude. The builder was running on Claude, and the checking was done in a second...
This week: I let an AI website builder put up a whole site for a friend's business, and then did the unglamorous half of the job, going back to fetch the real live output and check it, where I found...
This week, the verdict on the expensive AI I switched off: the free engine wins, though not for the reason I hoped. A machine of mine that reported success every night for a week while doing nothing...
This week I switched off an artificial intelligence. An expensive one, about a hundred pounds a month, and the app it was meant to be promoting may be doing better without it. A build log from Utter...
The book
Understanding AI: The Word Calculator and How to Use It Well
by Peter Hunter
What AI actually is, how it works, where it goes wrong, and how to use it well, in plain English and without the hype. Written by someone who has spent thirty years keeping complex systems running and learned AI the only honest way, by using it for real work.
Kindle £4.99, paperback £9.99, hardback £16.99.
Apps
Utter List
A voice-forward to-do list built for people with ADHD and dyslexia. Talk to it, dump your thoughts, and let it sort them out.
TabletMinder
A UK medication reminder with over 50,000 UK medicines built in. Free reminders for up to five medicines, no account, no ads, and nothing leaves your phone.
JabBuddy
A private tracker for GLP-1 medication. Log your injections, your weight and your side effects, all stored on your own device.
SLA Uptime Calc
Work out error budgets and what an uptime percentage actually allows. Built for the people who have to answer for the number.
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