🎙️ Episode 12 is here! In this episode of The Morning Prompt, Kyle and Will welcome special guest Mike Sabin for a fascinating conversation about how AI has become part of both his professional workflow and personal life. Mike shares his experience helping clients move beyond basic AI experimentation and discover meaningful ways to use AI to augment business processes, workflows, and everyday work.
The conversation takes a deeper look at Mike’s personal AI journey, including how he has been using ChatGPT while writing a science-fiction mystery novel. From researching interstellar propulsion systems and developing realistic story elements to editing scenes, exploring character development, maintaining continuity, and working through ideas, Mike explains how AI has evolved from a simple research tool into what he describes as an “extension of his brain.”
Kyle, Will, and Mike discuss:
How AI is helping businesses move beyond basic experimentation and into meaningful workflow integration
Using AI as an extension of your own thinking, memory, and problem-solving process
How Mike uses ChatGPT throughout the process of writing his science-fiction mystery novel
Using AI for research, editing, character development, emotional tone, and story continuity
How AI can help writers remember and reconnect ideas across long-running projects
Why starting with the problem may be more important than finding the “perfect prompt”
How asking AI to help determine the right approach can change the way people work with these tools
The shift from simply directing AI to actually having a conversation with it
Using AI for travel planning, restaurant recommendations, sightseeing, and discovering new experiences
Building a personalized AI experience around preferences, including food and wine recommendations
How AI projects can help organize conversations, information, and long-term work
The evolving role of AI memory and how context can help users reconnect with previous ideas
Why AI can help people manage complex, scattered, and sometimes chaotic thought processes
The importance of simply getting started with AI and choosing a use case you're genuinely interested in
Why experienced AI users should ask the tools how they can be using their capabilities more effectively
The future of AI consumption, computing costs, agents, privacy, and local processing
⏱️ Episode Chapters
00:27 – Welcome & Meet Mike Sabin
00:58 – Mike’s Professional Background & AI Adoption
02:12 – Using AI to Drive Business Impact
03:39 – Mike’s Personal AI Stack
04:49 – AI & Writing a Science-Fiction Mystery Novel
05:27 – Using AI for Feedback, Editing & Problem Solving
06:20 – AI as an Extension of Thinking & Memory
07:15 – Asking AI: “What Am I Missing?”
07:55 – Using AI for Research & World Building
09:00 – AI for Editing, Ideation & Story Development
10:00 – Using AI to Maintain Continuity Across a Novel
11:33 – Lessons From Mike’s AI Journey
11:57 – From Prompting to Problem Solving
13:41 – Moving From Technology to Conversation
14:28 – How Mike Uses AI at Home
14:57 – AI for Travel, Food & Restaurant Recommendations
15:49 – Building a Personal AI Sommelier
16:43 – The Importance of Context
17:13 – Using Projects to Organize AI Conversations
18:28 – AI Memory & Long-Term Context
19:31 – Questions Around AI Memory & Privacy
21:00 – AI as an Extension of Human Memory
23:43 – Mike’s Advice: Just Get Started
24:29 – Finding AI Use Cases You’re Passionate About
25:47 – Bonus Conversation: AI Consumption & Computing Costs
28:00 – AI Agents, Usage & The Future of Computing
30:00 – From Pay-Per-Text to Pay-Per-Compute
32:17 – AI Advertising & Monetization 33:27 – Apple, AI & The Future of Siri
34:59 – Hardware, Local AI & Computing Power
36:36 – Privacy, Personal Data & AI
38:33 – AI, Human Behavior & The Future of Personalization
40:18 – When Science Fiction Starts Looking Like Reality
42:04 – Closing Thoughts
