In this chapter, Scott and Reece explore vibe coding wins, global AI outages, business tools pretending to be “AI-powered”, the unexpected economic boom of the .ai domain, and some brilliantly chaotic AI fails. From building full websites on a phone to Renault’s dancing in-car mascot, this episode dives into everything from practical innovation to downright nonsense.

In this episode:

💻 Vibe Coding Success Stories – Building websites on a phone, creating payment systems with Stripe, letting agents edit live servers, and the joys and pitfalls of outsourcing the heavy lifting to AI. Read More

🌐 Mobile-Only Vibe Coding – Reece tests whether he can build and deploy a website entirely from his phone using agent mode and CPanel access. Spoiler: yes, but it burns through credits fast. Read More

🎨 Building the Prompt Fiction Website – Scott creates the entire site without writing code, shifting between GPT-5, Gemini, and Manis for live browser testing, Pulp Fiction styling, and RSS automation. Read More

⚡ Global ChatGPT Outage – A worldwide crash sends millions of users to Copilot, slowing it to a crawl. A reminder of how dependent we all are on these tools when they vanish without warning. Read More

💬 Waffleless Chats (Branching) – ChatGPT’s new feature that lets you rewind to any previous point and “branch” a fresh conversation without all the tangents. The productivity upgrade nobody expected. Read More

📁 Custom GPTs in Projects – Using @-mentions to pull different GPTs into a single workflow: writing styles, blog posts, LinkedIn content, images, summarising, markdown formatting and more. A team-of-ten inside one chat. Read More

🏢 ChatGPT for Business – OpenAI finally renames “ChatGPT Teams” to something that actually makes sense. No more confusion with Microsoft Teams. Read More

💼 Microsoft Copilot Updates – Prompt libraries, memories, business integration and new models in testing. A stronger alternative when ChatGPT stumbles. Read More

🍅 Tomato Plus & the AI Badge Problem – A smart greenhouse company slaps “AI-powered” branding on what is essentially a fancy grow-box with sensors. A perfect example of AI being used as a marketing sticker. Read More

🚗 Renault’s “Hey Reno” Mascot – The Renault 5’s animated assistant, powered by ChatGPT, dances on the dash like a cross between Clippy and Jurassic Park’s DNA mascot. Cute or cursed? You decide. Read More

🏝️ The .ai Domain Boom (Anguilla) – How a tiny Caribbean island made tens of millions as 850,000 AI domain names were registered last year, transforming its economy. Read More

📺 South Park’s “Sycophantic” Episode – A sharp parody of agreeable AIs, GPT language quirks, influencer-speak, and dangerously supportive chatbots. Read More

🦌 Atlassian Buys The Browser Company – The makers of D.E.E.R. are acquired by Atlassian, with plans to bring the AI-powered browser to mobile and the mainstream. Read More

📱 Comet Comes to Android – Perplexity’s agentic browser lands on mobile, able to click, type, navigate, draft messages and automate tasks on your device. iOS expected soon. Read More

🎁 AI Freebies: Perplexity & Gemini –
• O2 or Virgin customers get a free year of Perplexity Pro
• PayPal users can also unlock a free year via a hidden link
• Students and educators with .ac.uk emails get Gemini Pro free for a year
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😬 Copy • Paste • Send –
• Scott spells Reece’s name wrong across an entire transcript
• Will Smith’s Scarborough concert gets “AI-enhanced” crowd shots featuring extra fingers, warped limbs and thousands more fans than the town even holds
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