Blake Nussey leads at Amazon on Alexa, and he joins Georgie for a deep dive into Alexa Plus, now live in Australia. They cover the shift from rigid voice commands to a true personal assistant powered by over 70 models, and why Amazon built a model agnostic architecture to trade off speed against reasoning depth.

The conversation gets personal fast: a customer who broke her leg and called for help through Alexa, Blake's Alexa run wind down routine, and why "don't lead the witness" has become his and Georgie's go to line for settling arguments with a neutral AI referee. They dig into what it actually took to make Alexa understand Australian English (avo, servo and all), the far field listening tech that lets Alexa hear you across a noisy room, and how privacy and trust are engineered in, down to a hardware mute button.

They also talk accessibility (Alexa's role for vision impaired and elderly users), kids and voice AI, and Blake's prediction for when voice hits 50% of how we interact with tech. Plus a rapid fire round covering Tesla FSD, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, flat whites, and Jimmethy the raccoon.

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Georgies Alexa+ Prompts to Try

“Alexa, remember that Imogen can't have dairy”

Alexa+ will remember preferences and factor it into recommendations like dinner ideas

“Alexa, remember my frequent flyer number is [number].”

“Alexa, it’s too hot in here.”

Nelly disagrees, but use this with a connected air conditioner to adjust the room temperature

“Alexa, every morning at 7, check the weather, recommend what to wear and play the news.”

Create a Routine like the corporate athlete you are

“Alexa, what happened while I was out?”

Alexa+ reviews footage from connected doorbells and cameras like a deliveries

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CHAPTERS

00:00 – Cold open: FSD and "don't lead the witness"

01:18 – Intro: Georgie's honest take on Alexa Plus

04:04 – Sponsor: Deel

04:22 – Welcome + Blake's favorite AI hack (voice routines + Tesla FSD)

06:27 – Most non-AI thing: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

08:30 – Evolution of Alexa to Alexa Plus

09:59 – Behind the scenes: how Alexa picks the right model

12:51 – Smart home routines and the "corporate athlete" habit

15:29 – Alexa recommends a book (the Kindle story)

16:25 – Sponsor: Deel

17:12 – Building Australian Alexa: colloquialisms and local speech

20:58 – What made the Aussie rollout hard

22:36 – 2 billion interactions and Australian usage patterns

24:32 – Kids and Alexa: safety, kids mode, and development

26:44 – Presence, phones, and family dinner table use

27:44 – Privacy, trust, and the hardware mute button

30:52 – Accessibility: vision impairment, aging, and emergency use

34:21 – Near field vs far field: how Alexa actually hears you

39:19 – Voice AI hype, predictions, and wearable mic concepts

46:17 – Privacy culture, recording etiquette, and Meta glasses

48:44 – Rapid fire round

55:16 – Outro

Mentioned in this episode:

Deel x BAI_Script 01 - Sep 2026

Deel x BAI_Script 02 - Sep 2026

For the first time in 80 episodes, host Georgie Healy flips the format and answers your questions. Recorded to mark 50,000 Spotify plays, this Ask Me Anything covers the questions listeners have been sending in since the early days of the show: the imposter syndrome years when even friends and family weren't listening, the two lines she still repeats to herself every week, and how she prepares guests before they ever hit record.

There's a rapid-fire round covering her most-used AI tools (Claude is the one she can't make a decision without), the AI products everyone can't stop talking about right now (Higgsfield and Grok Bot both get a mention), and the guest she's still chasing. Georgie also goes behind the scenes on the interview mistake that still makes her wince years later, told in full for the first time, along with the moment a live Sydney audience quietly revealed just how many of them had Claude running while they sat there.

It closes on where the show goes next: Georgie's honest, ambitious answer to what success looks like, and why she wants In The Blink of AI to be your weekly AI Superbowl.

Mentioned in this episode:

Deel x BAI_Script 01 - Sep 2026

Deel x BAI_Script 02 - Sep 2026

Lazar Jovanovic didn't go to engineering school. He found a beta tool called GPT Engineer, set himself a challenge to build a new app every week, and filmed the whole thing. Two years later he's Lovable's in-house vibe coder, building load bearing internal tools that engineers tell him used to take a team of twenty.

In this episode of In the Blink of AI, Georgie Healy hands him her own website and asks him to roast it live. He does, in about four minutes, and the fixes he gives are ones you can apply to your own site today.

From there it gets sharper. Why "explain it like I'm five" is the worst thing you can say to an AI, and the exact script to use instead. Why opening four tabs costs you less than fixing one bad build. Why he thinks almost nobody writes their own code by hand anymore, and why that was never the valuable part of engineering anyway.

And when Georgie asks why people blame the tools, he gives the line the whole episode hangs on: it's a vehicle, it's faster than you, and if you won't take the wheel, enjoy the cliff.

Plus what's actually left for humans when building gets cheap, the three tools he can't work without, and who he thinks Georgie should book next.

Hands on episode. Get a pen.

Mentioned in this episode:

Deel x BAI_Script 01 - Sep 2026

Deel x BAI_Script 02 - Sep 2026