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Andrew Miles Davis shares three prompt endings, the short lines you add at the end of a prompt to get better answers from AI. First is "turn this into a fill-in-the-blank template I can reuse", which turns a one-off answer into a tool, like a meeting follow-up email or a proposal structure. Second is "focus only on" one angle and "ignore everything else", which stops answers wandering, whether you use it on a customer survey or to see an argument from the other person's side. Third is "summarise the core argument in one sentence before giving the details", which tells you straight away whether a long report is worth reading. Andrew also explains why he now thinks the ending of a prompt matters more than the beginning, and how it takes you from white belt to black belt in prompting. You can find his full list of prompt endings at AndrewMilesDavis.com/prompt-endings. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for prompt tips you can use today, in ten minutes.

Andrew Miles Davis shares three cool tools in week 85 of Cool Tools Tuesday. First is Editly, a writing tool that corrects, edits, rewrites and translates your text, with a focus on humanising AI writing. It shows you what it changed and why, gives you a clean version to copy, and even lets you send your text to a human editor. Andrew explains why he still thinks the human side matters in writing and creativity. Second is UseToby, which prepares you for a job interview from a link to the role and your CV. It researches the company, checks recent news and reported interview questions, and gives likely questions with a difficulty rating. Andrew connects it to media training and the idea of having three things you always want to get across. Third is Zight, the screen recorder Andrew has used for around ten years, which has AI features including transcription you can ask questions of. He explains why he prefers it to Loom, and mentions Screen Studio for tutorials. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three cool tools every Tuesday in ten minutes.

Andrew Miles Davis counts down his top five AI red flags from the bad part of his Good, Bad and Ugly talk, the things that affect you or your company rather than society. At number five is hallucinations, and why checking sources and human judgement matter more as the output gets more important. Number four is over-reliance, when AI moves from helping you think to thinking for you, and how it can bring overwhelm. Number three is data privacy, where people paste client information into AI tools because they do not know what they are allowed to share, and why organisations need clear rules on approved tools. Number two is loss of creativity, as AI goes for the average and content starts to look generic, although people with a creative background still have a real head start. Number one is the skill gap, and why the divide between people who use AI well and people who do not gets bigger every month. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for practical AI ideas for marketers and content creators, every day in ten minutes.

Andrew Miles Davis covers a Friday news episode led by the next stage of AI, the personal agent. Anthropic has joined X, Meta and OpenAI in launching one, and Andrew explains why he still thinks 2027 is the year agents go mainstream. If large language models give you answers, agents take action. He looks at Meta's Muse, which Mark Zuckerberg thinks could eventually be a bigger business than Facebook, and which already has ten million users. According to Datadome, Muse accounts for a third of all agentic browser traffic. He then asks whether rushing in is wise, as Meta reportedly scaled back plans to replace staff with agents and Microsoft says access and usage do not equal transformation. Barclays is cutting around 5,000 jobs, roughly 5% of its workforce, while increasing its use of AI, with its chief executive calling AI the icing on the cake, not the cake. Andrew also covers AI scams getting harder to spot, why seeing a face or hearing a voice is no longer proof, and the TikTok CEO and Microsoft executives saying the AI hype has gone too far. His take is that we overestimate what AI can do in a month and underestimate it over a year. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.

Andrew Miles Davis combines two productivity ideas from The 4-Hour Work Week with AI. Parkinson's law says work expands to fill the time available. Pareto's law, the 80/20 principle, says roughly 80% of your results come from 20% of what you do. Andrew explains how the two work together, and asks whether AI is the best 80/20 tool we have ever had. His answer is yes and no, because AI is brilliant at finding the 20% but it cannot make you stop at the right point. He shares four ways he uses it. These are strategic planning from a messy brain dump, deciding which 20% of his to-do list matters most each Monday, vibe coding with his 70% rule, and learning something new. Andrew also shares how the 70% rule finally got In AI Nutshell started after fifteen years of thinking about it. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for practical AI ideas for marketers and content creators, every day in ten minutes.

Andrew Miles Davis answers three questions from his recent training sessions in this fortnightly FAQ episode. First, can AI reduce stress and burnout? He says it depends, but AI can lift admin and repetitive work. The catch is what happens to the time it saves, because if your employer simply adds more work, stress goes up rather than down. Second, what happens if AI gives financial or medical advice that harms someone? Andrew explains that AI takes zero responsibility for your decisions, so you cannot go back to a chatbot and ask for your money back. Use it as a starting point, compare answers across models if you like, but the final decision and the consequences are yours. Third, will AI steal my job? Andrew says AI will take some jobs, as the internet and social media did, but the people getting the best results already know what good looks like. He shares what he sees on his AI Live Show and why you should double down on your experience while now is the time to do it. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the answers to the questions your team is asking, every other week in ten minutes.

Andrew Miles Davis shares three very different cool tools for Cool Tools Tuesday. First is Veridive, a site with a Deep Query feature that searches dozens of YouTube videos on your topic and gives you one answer with citations, much like an AI overview for video. Andrew explains why this matters in a no-click world and what it could mean for YouTube creators. Next is Google's new Foresight, a note taker that runs as an app on your Mac and stores everything on your device. It works offline, turns two or three jotted words into full notes from the live conversation, and connects to your docs, slides and emails. Andrew also covers the ethics of recording calls without telling people. The third tool is Tolixy, a directory of over 190 free in-browser tools across eight categories, including PDF, image, video, audio, text, developer tools, file converters and calculators. Use them as they are, or take them as inspiration to vibe code your own. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three cool tools every Tuesday in ten minutes.

Andrew Miles Davis is back with another AI pet peeves episode, the monthly look at three things that annoy him about generative AI. First up is ChatGPT's lack of a "last modified" sort for chats, a small change that Claude has made and one that has led him to use Claude more. He explains why searching old chats is so painful when you have 15 different chats on strategic planning. Next is the social media algorithm, where one click on kettlebells or saunas can flood your feed for weeks. Andrew shows how this affects both users and creators trying to reach the right audience. The third peeve is cost. With ChatGPT's new $500 a month plan, he argues the real problem is that what you paid for last year now gets you less, just like Netflix adverts creeping into the standard tier. He predicts a $2,000 a month plan within a year. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI insights that matter to marketers and content creators, in ten minutes.

Andrew Miles Davis covers a week of AI news led by entertainment, starting with Nicolas Cage refusing to sign an AI waiver connected to an Amazon Spider-Noir series. He suggests the stance could mean Cage does not work with the studio again, and asks whether other actors will face the same choice. He also covers the backlash to the Kardashians using AI generated imagery in the opening of their eighth season, with Khloe Kardashian pushing back and saying people should watch the whole sequence before judging it. Andrew uses it to show how using AI can now become a reputational issue, and how people often react to a clip rather than the full story. Other stories include Sony Music asking for more than a quarter of a million AI tracks impersonating artists to be removed, a number that has doubled in six months, and Anthropic updating its usage policy to prohibit sustained unnecessary cruelty towards its AI models. He covers Joseph Gordon-Levitt's concern that AI companies could profit from encouraging emotional relationships with chatbots, McDonald's facing a lawsuit over claims that AI pricing tools coordinated prices between independent restaurants, and Google research in which an AI system interviewed 98 patients before urgent care appointments. Doctors said the summaries helped them prepare in 75% of cases, and the suggested diagnosis matched the final one 90% of the time. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.

Andrew Miles Davis explains why personal AI agents, such as Meta's Muse and Grokbot, are the biggest shift in generative AI right now. He sets out three stages. Chatbots wait for you to ask. Do-it-yourself agents such as ChatGPT work or Claude Code work across your files and apps. Personal agents are proactive and notice things before you ask, such as spotting tomorrow's meeting and pulling together previous conversations and the latest news about the company. He argues the old assumption was that AI gets more useful when you get better at telling it what to do, and the new one may be that it gets more useful when it knows enough about you that you do not have to. He is open about the trade-offs, covering privacy, security and control, plus the lock-in risk of spending two years teaching one agent how you work. His practical advice is to skip the question of which agent to sign up for and ask what you would actually want AI to notice, starting with the things you repeatedly remember, monitor or discover too late, such as an unpaid invoice. He closes by saying the real advantage becomes judgement about what AI should know, watch and act on. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes on where AI is really heading.

Andrew Miles Davis resets his prompt hacks series around one idea, that what you add to the end of a prompt now matters more than the prompt itself, because endings give the model the context it needs. He compares this to how hooks replaced headlines in content marketing, and argues prompt endings will become the next thing everyone talks about. He shares three endings with real examples. The first asks for up to five clarifying questions before the final response, which turned a vague request for a fitness plan into one built around his goals, ability, time and equipment. The second tells the AI to stop and ask if any part of the request is ambiguous, which caught that a five day holiday in Italy was far too broad. The third asks for a brief outline and approval before writing a long piece, which let him shape a seven day meal plan before it was built. He ties all three back to his AI sandwich and points listeners to his prompt endings page on his website. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for prompt hacks twice a month and daily ten-minute AI insight.

Andrew Miles Davis covers three tools on week 83 of Cool Tools Tuesday. He starts with Note It Hub, which takes a long chat, finds the to dos scattered through it, and turns them into one list, solving the problem of good ideas getting lost across separate conversations. He then covers Claude's new add-on for Google Workspace, which brings AI into Sheets in the way Copilot does for Excel, with the same catch that even simple tasks can take up to a minute, so it earns its place on complicated jobs rather than quick ones. He closes with Google's SynthID, a tool for identifying AI generated content, and uses it to raise the bigger question of where the line sits between AI generated and AI edited, arguing the line matters more than the label because the real concern is being manipulated. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday with honest verdicts from someone testing them in real work.

Andrew Miles Davis answers eleven randomly generated questions in his favourite monthly format. On the AI side, he says the job he would be most nervous about AI doing is any role where a wrong answer lands on him, because AI will never care if it gets it wrong, so it can advise him but never decide. He also says Apple is the brand he most wants to see fix its AI, since anyone in the Apple ecosystem would benefit, and he adds that he is fine with the hardware but not the prices. On the personal side, he tells the story of being given the honeymoon suite at a hotel in Portugal, shares what a ten day silent Vipassana retreat with no phone was really like, and recalls a stranger on a beach telling him he was a fantastic dad. Other answers cover the best domain name he knows of, the fictional worlds he would visit for a week, why he refuses to pay full price for a car, and the ridiculous event he would add to the Olympics. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for one of these unscripted, unfiltered episodes every month alongside daily ten-minute AI insight.

Andrew Miles Davis covers a week of AI news that mixes useful new features with some uncomfortable warnings. He leads with ChatGPT's new Intelligent UI, which decides how best to answer and can show interactive results while it is still researching in the background. He also covers Google's Playground, which lets you describe a game in plain English and share or publish it, though for now it is limited to adults in the US. Andrew then covers the story of a California woman who spent five and a half hours on the phone with a scammer using a cloned version of her daughter's voice, sending $5,400 in four transfers before discovering her daughter was at work. He explains why he has agreed a safety question with his own family that only they would know. Other stories include an update to Meta's Muse that builds a page on every person in your life, including people who never signed up, Audioball's plan for interactive audiobook stories where you can talk to the characters, and an author whose book on AI and truth was found to contain 26 quotes that did not stand up after AI tidied his original wording. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.

Andrew Miles Davis uses a BBC story about a 21 year old graduate who spent £30,000 on a content creation degree to ask a bigger question about AI learning. If you spend hours mastering a tool that changes a month later, what exactly did you pay to learn? He argues that access to information and actual learning are not the same thing, and shows how skills turn into features, then buttons, then a single sentence, using infographics and elaborate prompt formulas as examples from his own 15 years of training. He introduces the disappearing tool test, which separates tool knowledge from transferable knowledge such as explaining problems, questioning answers, and knowing when your own judgement should override AI. He ties it back to his time at MySpace, where the platforms vanished but the problems of attention, understanding people, and selling survived. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes on what is actually worth learning.