Season 1 Rerun

AI becomes far more useful when it stops being “just a chatbot”.

The real shift happens when AI becomes part of your workflow.

Research. Writing. Planning. Meetings. Analysis. Decision support. Organisation. Automation. More people are building personal AI stacks that combine tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, automation platforms, and AI-assisted workflows into everyday work.

This episode revisits one of the strongest-performing episodes in the Decoded catalogue because the conversation around AI has changed.

As we no longer ask, "Should I use AI?”, we're continually asking, “How do I actually use it properly?”

So, in this episode, we revisit:

• What a personal AI stack actually is
• Why different AI tools perform differently
• How people are combining AI tools into workflows
• The risks of relying on one tool for everything
• Why good AI use is becoming a workplace capability

As Decoded: AI for Everyone moves towards Season 4 and Applied Intelligence, this episode becomes a bridge between understanding AI and operationalising it.

Because the future of AI lies in how the tools work together.

Resources and tools:

• Show Website: Decoded-podcast.com
• Prompts & Tools: PromptEngineeringCookBook.com
• AI Research: Strategen-AI.com
• More on Joel: JoelLeslie.com.au