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 the tool's own logo still in the browser tab, brand colours quietly drifted off the official pack, a stray wrong colour the find-replace missed, and the literal words "Body paragraph placeholder" dressed up as finished copy. None of it broken. All of it just looked done. Plus a short beat on rebuilding TabletMinder's onboarding, one idea from the book on the most useful question I know ("what does good look like?"), and the week's AI news, checked before it's aired.
This week's sponsor: Waystation (waystationltd.com), a career and organisation alignment consultancy for Project and Product roles, "In it together." Full disclosure: Waystation are the sponsor because I built their website, so this is a friendly, mutual arrangement, not a cash deal, and it is disclosed here and spoken on air.
Chapters:
00:00 Cold open
01:04 Intro
02:04 Build Log, the AI-built website (and a TabletMinder beat)
08:33 The Bookshelf, "Go Back. It Gets Better."
11:53 AI News (verified)
15:48 Outro
AI-voice disclosure: Narrated with an AI-generated clone of Peter's own voice. Written and edited by a human. The AI-news segment is fact-checked against primary sources before airing.
Featured app, TabletMinder, all 50,000+ NHS medicines built in: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/tabletminder/id6757861874
Utter List, the to-do list that listens: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/utter-list/id6761653207
Book, Understanding AI: The Word Calculator and How to Use It Well (Peter Hunter): https://books2read.com/u/31zr9r
The tools, since I did not name them on air: the site was built in bolt.new, which is an AI website builder that itself runs on Claude, and the checking was done in a second window entirely, with Claude Code fetching the real live pages as they went up and reading back what was actually there, which is how the leftover favicon, the drifted brand colours and the placeholder copy were caught. So it was Claude in the kitchen doing the cooking and Claude at the pass checking the plates, and the reason the second one earns its keep is that it looks at the finished dish rather than the recipe.
This week's sponsor, Waystation: https://waystationltd.com
Waystation Limited, a career and organisation alignment consultancy for Project and Product roles (Business Analysis, Product Management, Project Management), helping candidates and employers get the fit right. "In it together."
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AI-news sources:
Anthropic, Claude Opus 5 (released 2026-07-24; claude-opus-5; $5/M input, $25/M output): https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5
OpenAI, API deprecations, Assistants API shutdown 2026-08-26 (migrate to the Responses API + Conversations API): https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations
(Held, not aired as a full story) OpenAI GPT-5.6 "Sol": announcement pages still HTTP 403; family/flagship confirmed only via OpenAI's preview system card (no speed figure): https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-6-preview
