Why this podcast exists
I use AI for nearly everything I do at work and still would not claim to know it. This show is me trying to fix that in public, and asking to be corrected.
I use AI every day and I still would not claim to know it.
That sounds like false modesty. It isn't. The field moves faster than anyone can keep up with, the ground shifts every few weeks, and the honest position is that using something a lot is not the same as understanding it. So this show is an attempt to learn more, out loud, where other people can see the working and tell me where it is wrong.
Where I'm coming from
I'm a product manager, and I use AI for essentially everything the job involves. That already gives me opinions. What it doesn't give me is confidence that those opinions are right.
Alongside that I'm building an AI-powered software testing tool — you give it a prompt, a video or a document, and it turns that into a structured test case and then executes it using computer-using agents. Building it has taught me a great deal about where these systems are genuinely capable and where they quietly fall over.
It has also taught me about governance, which I did not expect to find as interesting as I do. When you sell into enterprises, governance is not a compliance checkbox bolted on at the end. It is the thing that decides whether any of it can be used at all.
What the communities taught me
A lot of what I know came from outside my day job. I help run the London Atlassian Community and Experts Live UK, and I host their podcast, Community Voices. That has put me across the table from a lot of people using AI in anger — their tricks, their shortcuts, the governance problems they hit and what they did about them.
Interviewing people is an unreasonably efficient way to learn. This show is partly an attempt to keep doing that with the pressure of having to explain it back.
What I want from you
Honest, constructive discussion — and critique. Especially when I get something wrong, or when there's an obvious gap in what I know. I would rather be corrected in public than be confidently mistaken in private.
I'm also hoping to start round table discussions on these topics. Anyone is welcome to join.
I use AI every day and I still would not claim to know it.