In A(i) Nutshell

Andrew Miles Davis wraps up a deliberately quieter August, using the extra time away from training to properly test three tools that shaped his month outside of his permanently retired ChatGPT and Whisper Flow. Claude Design handled the full front end of his new website, thestorylensmethod.com, built from a rough description in under an hour, and impressed him further with animation capabilities he plans to bring to LinkedIn content given the cost and complexity of sourcing motion graphics manually. Codex handled the back end, hosting the site directly and removing the traditionally fiddly process of domain purchasing, hosting, and name server configuration. Copilot rounds out the three, with Andrew revisiting a tool he had previously written off after a poor experience with Gemini and Sheets, now praising its native integration across Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, particularly for small formatting tasks he can now handle entirely by voice given his RSI. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for a daily ten-minute update on what is actually worth using, from someone building real things with these tools every month.

Andrew Miles Davis covers a relatively quiet news week that still carried some significant stories, starting with new research suggesting AI written language now leaves fingerprints across roughly a third of the web, prompting a wider question about what happens to the value of original thinking as competent, AI-polished copy becomes the norm. He covers Hollywood creatives being paid to train AI systems on the exact skills that once made them employable, drawing a direct line to Ford's earlier decision to rehire staff it had replaced with AI in order to train the technology properly, and Dr Dre's public comments on using AI in music production, arguing that taste and judgement remain the irreplaceable skill even as AI speeds up experimentation. Other stories include New York enforcing disclosure rules for AI-generated influencers appearing in advertising, Twitch streamers suing Amazon over claims their content trained AI without consent, YouTube testing a prompt-based custom homepage feed, and AI identifying hidden patterns in breast cancer data that could help doctors tailor treatment more effectively. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.

Andrew Miles Davis continues his Story Lens video series by tackling why intelligent, well-informed people can look at the exact same evidence around AI and reach entirely opposite conclusions. Using the Moneyball story of traditional baseball scouts versus data-driven analysis as his central example, he argues that disagreement is rarely about who has the facts and far more often about which facts each side considers important. This lands in what he calls the Divide stage of his Story Lens framework, one of seven stages built around the "stranger comes to town" story structure, where disruption forces people into genuinely different readings of the same change rather than clean categories of understanding versus not understanding. Drawing on his own decision to leave the BBC for MySpace in 2006, a move that looked reckless to almost everyone at the time, Andrew offers a five-question method for evaluating competing arguments without immediately picking a side, including using AI itself to stress-test your own position rather than outsource the decision entirely. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute AI insight and to the YouTube channel for the full Story Lens series.

Andrew Miles Davis breaks down a recent Social Media Examiner marketing report, walking through the key statistics with his own honest reaction to each. Daily AI usage among marketers has jumped from 37% to 73% in two years, while a genuinely striking finding shows Claude has overtaken ChatGPT as marketers' most important single tool despite ChatGPT still leading on raw usage, a shift Andrew traces back to Anthropic's public stance against government surveillance and weapons work last year. He highlights that 85% of marketers now pay for AI tools, with the majority spending their own money, reinforcing his ongoing argument that the era of doing everything for free is ending and people need to shift their mental model toward paying for AI the way they pay for a phone bill. He also covers the gap between interest and adoption in AI video, where the desire to learn far outpaces actual usage, and the significant gap between AI agent hype and real-world adoption, with only 11% of respondents using them regularly despite widespread interest. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes breaking down what's actually happening in AI marketing data.

Andrew Miles Davis marks 76 weeks of Cool Tools Tuesday with three picks, leading with Happy Shrimp, an AI music generator that has become one of the most talked-about tools of the summer despite its unusual name, competing directly with Suno, Udio, and Producer AI. Running his standard test prompt, Andrew found it produced strong results on the first attempt, making it a genuinely good starting point for anyone new to AI music generation. He also covers a quietly significant update to ChatGPT Images, which now supports proper transparent background generation, removing the need to route images through Canva for background removal and matching that quality directly inside the platform. The episode closes with FindOutMy.com, a lighter tool that analyses uploaded photos and gives feedback on posture, presentation, style, and physical presence, which Andrew tests on himself with mixed seriousness while flagging it purely as entertainment rather than anything to take too literally. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday with honest verdicts from someone testing them in real work.

Andrew Miles Davis tackles a problem that has been genuinely frustrating him, AI's tendency to forget context that matters even after hours of collaborative work, and breaks it down into three distinct levels of memory. Global memory covers broad, stable facts about a person that reasonably follow them across every conversation, but cannot hold detailed project context without becoming unwieldy and contextually inappropriate. Project memory creates a boundary around a specific piece of work, letting AI hold format, audience, and history for something like a podcast or campaign, but still leaves the AI deciding what within that boundary actually deserves to be remembered. The third and most reliable level involves building an external memory system, real files and notes that the user controls and updates after each session, which AI reads as a record rather than relies on recall for. Andrew shares his own practical example of maintaining a simple status file for major projects that gets updated after every working session, eliminating the need to hope AI remembered the right details. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that dig into how to actually get better results from the AI tools you already use.

Andrew Miles Davis covers a genuinely quiet news week that still surfaced some meaningful stories, starting with the observation that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's wife appears almost nowhere in Claude's outputs despite being easily findable elsewhere online, prompting a wider concern about what large language models choose not to train on and why having multiple competing platforms matters as a safeguard against any single company controlling what information surfaces. He covers Robin Williams' children reactivating his Instagram account to give fans an authentic reference point against the growing spread of AI-generated versions of his voice and likeness, ChatGPT launching a dedicated version for teenagers with study tools and safety guardrails around self-harm and explicit content, Google DeepMind releasing Backstory, a verification tool built to help journalists and fact-checkers investigate manipulated images and content, and LinkedIn quietly adding an AI slop reporting option that appears to have no actual consequence for the content or its author. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.

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Andrew Miles Davis opens a new video series by tackling a question he hears in almost every training session he delivers: when will using AI at work stop feeling unusual? Drawing on his Story Lens framework, built around the "stranger comes to town" story structure he has used with organisations for fifteen years, he argues that AI sits firmly in the adaptation stage rather than the new normal stage, and that most people waste time in this stage by spreading themselves across too many tools rather than going deep on one. He introduces a practical five-day test, reviewing the last five working days to separate AI use that has become instinctive from moments where AI could have helped but was not considered until after the fact, as a simple way to identify what to build into a genuine habit next. This is the first instalment in a planned series walking through all seven stages of the Story Lens framework. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute AI insight and to the YouTube channel for the full Story Lens series.

Andrew Miles Davis answers eleven randomly generated questions covering AI, marketing, and personal reflections in his favourite recurring format. He shares what he would genuinely miss if AI disappeared overnight, landing on convenience rather than capability, and revisits a frustrating recent experience where AI silently produced incorrect duplicate entries partway through a major data entry project despite performing well initially, a moment he still describes as a bad surprise rather than a good one. He also covers lighter ground including the craziest experience of his career, involving a missed flight, a broken mini-disc player, and an unplanned DJ set opening for Kanye West in front of 16,000 people, along with his picks for the brand with the most personality online, the piece of popular technology he thinks will eventually disappear, and why he could deliver a twenty minute TED talk with zero preparation any day of the week. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for one of these unscripted, unfiltered episodes every month alongside daily ten-minute AI insight.

Andrew Miles Davis covers three tools on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, leading with a genuinely impressed first experience of Claude Design after using it to build a full brand kit and website UX in under 30 minutes for a major upcoming project, having tried and failed to get the result he wanted through ChatGPT and Codex first. He gives an honest take on what this means for professional designers, arguing the tool will most benefit people who already understand strong design principles rather than replace that judgement entirely. He also introduces Capptivo, a free open source alternative to Screen Studio and Cursorful for creating polished screen recordings with automatic cursor following and zoom, currently Mac only and untested by Andrew but flagged as one to watch. The episode closes with VideoToBlog.ai, a tool that converts YouTube videos or audio files into properly structured blog posts built with AEO and GEO discoverability in mind rather than simply dumping a transcript onto a page. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday with honest verdicts from someone testing them in real work.