2025 was the year AI stopped being hype and started showing up in the real world, in our phones, our homes, our hospitals, and even our holidays. But with the pace of change accelerating, how do you separate the genuine life-changing tools from the noise?

To close out a huge year of In The Blink of AI, Georgie has hand-picked the top ten AI hacks shared by founders, CTOs, designers, researchers, and creative experimenters on the show so far. These are the tools and prompts they actually use every day, to travel smarter, remove mental load, make better decisions, get up to speed fast, and even check their own blind spots.

In this special holiday edition, you’ll learn how to turn an AI into your personal tour guide, save hours of context-setting with one drag-and-drop move, let your kids solve the dinner dilemma, challenge your thinking before you hit publish, and unlock the real power of voice mode for deeper, more personalised results. Whether you’re a total beginner or already living in the multi-agent future, these hacks are your shortcut to a smarter 2026.

Grab your phone, open your favourite LLM, and try these out for yourself.

00:00 — Why AI hacks matter more than ever

01:25 — Hack 1: A tour guide in your ear with voice mode (Dr Thomas Kelly)

03:59 — Hack 2: Poke, the life-organising bot hiding in iMessage (Maddie D Reese)

05:37 — Hack 3: Making personalised music with Suno

07:25 — Hack 4: Drag-and-drop context files to save hours (Isaac Peiris)

09:18 — Hack 5: AI-powered art hunts in Rome

11:46 — Hack 6: No more “What’s for dinner?” with fridge-vision prompts (Katherine Boiciuc)

14:49 — Hack 7: Why everyone is sleeping on voice for prompting (Mike Keating)

18:29 — Hack 8: Using AI to reveal your own blind spots (Sarah Kaur)

22:31 — Hack 9: The party-table prompt that gets personal fast (Kunal Gupta)

25:40 — Hack 10: Stress-testing technical architecture as a non-technical founder (Frank Greeff)

38:22 — What to expect from In The Blink of AI in 2026

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AI is lowering the barrier to software development faster than anyone expected, and GitHub’s APAC VP Sharryn Napier has a front row seat. In this conversation, she shares how she built a personal to-do list app in under an hour with GitHub Copilot and Spark, despite not writing code herself. Georgie and Sharryn explore why millions of new developers are joining the platform, how 80 percent of new signups use Copilot within their first week, and what the explosion of no-code experimentation means for both beginners and seasoned engineers.

They also unpack the chaos and opportunity of the multi-agent era, where GitHub’s new Agent HQ aims to keep developers productive, secure, and in control. From open source culture and the next wave of technical talent to enterprise adoption, risk, and the future of software creation, this episode offers an inside look at how AI is transforming who builds software and how it gets made.

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Artificial intelligence is reshaping everything from work to healthcare to the way we interact online, but it’s also exposing deep gender gaps that we can’t afford to ignore. At the eSafety Summit in Canberra, Georgie sits down with award-winning researcher and gender equality expert Dr Elise Stephenson for a live conversation on the uncomfortable truth behind AI’s gender problem.

Only 22% of the global AI workforce is women.

Only 2% of Australian startup funding goes to female founders.

And when generating images of British women, some AI models label them as models or prostitutes 30% of the time.

In this episode of In The Blink of AI, Georgie and Elise dig into how bias creeps into AI systems, who’s responsible, and what needs to change, from data collection to funding incentives to the way we teach young people about online safety. They also explore the surprising ways women are using AI, why representation matters at every layer of the stack, and what a truly gender-responsive AI future could look like.

This is one of the most important episodes we’ve made, equal parts confronting and constructive, and a must-listen for anyone who cares about building tech that works for everyone.

00:00 — Intro

02:31 — What AI actually is (and what it definitely is not)

04:00 — How AI is showing up in daily life: usage trends among women and men

06:40 — Physical AI, robotics, and Grace Brown’s loneliness-fighting invention

08:44 — The hidden gender power imbalances behind AI development

09:29 — A history lesson: how women were pushed out of computing

11:19 — Privacy, consent, and the fear of being recorded by your own doctor

12:35 — Deepfakes, blackmail, and why women are disproportionately targeted

14:45 — The “ghost workforce”: who actually labels the data AI learns from

15:26 — How unrepresentative datasets become harmful outcomes

16:35 — When Google Photos labeled a Black man as a gorilla

18:04 — The case for optimism: can AI reduce bias if we design it right?

21:32 — Who’s responsible for gender-safe AI: companies, funders, or users?

23:30 — The Inclusive Innovation Playbook: how to build fairer AI ecosystems

25:40 — Why regulating AI is so hard (and why countries disagree wildly)

27:23 — Dual-use tech, human oversight, and what companies like Unilever get right

29:03 — AI we should be excited about: healthcare, diagnostics, and robotics

31:39 — When an AI coworker goes rogue: who’s accountable?

32:56 — What a gender-responsive AI future actually looks like

34:08 — Top recommendations: feminist tech diplomacy and moving beyond critique

36:28 — Where to find Georgie and Elise

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Justin Tauber has spent nearly a decade inside one of the world’s biggest tech companies, first in strategic innovation, now leading Salesforce’s global work on ethical and human use of AI. With a background in cognitive science and design thinking, he’s become one of Australia’s most insightful voices on how technology and ethics can (and must) evolve together.

In this episode of In The Blink of AI, Georgie Healy sits down with Justin to unpack what “agentic AI” really means beyond the hype, and how enterprises can adopt it responsibly. Justin shares how scenario planning helps teams prepare for unpredictable futures, why prediction matters less than rehearsal, and how ethical constraints often spark the most original innovations.

They also dig into the growing problem of “shadow AI” inside companies, the trade-offs between startups and enterprises, and why Australia’s best AI opportunity might not be moving fastest, but safest.

If you’ve ever wondered what trust, transparency, and technology look like when they collide, this episode is your blueprint.

00:00 - Intro

05:20 - The rise of multimodal thinking

08:05 - Scenario planning and future rehearsal in AI

09:01 - Inside Salesforce: what an ethical AI team actually does

11:47 - Strategy vs policy: why most “AI strategies” aren’t strategic

13:00 - Safe hammers, safe chainsaws, and the real meaning of safety

15:45 - Trust = character + competence

17:15 - Prediction is less important than rehearsal

19:39 - Why ethics often drives innovation (bendy straws, accessibility, and more)

24:50 - Training ethical thinking like a muscle

26:01 - Shadow AI: the hidden risk inside every company

28:39 - Where bias really comes from, and how to design around it

32:12 - When to use generative vs deterministic AI

36:01 - The privacy paradox: consent, choice, and control

39:00 - Agentic AI explained through drum machines and creativity

46:13 - Startups vs enterprises: who’s taking bigger risks with AI

52:48 - Australia’s AI opportunity: becoming the world’s “safety lab”

🙋🏻‍♂️ Justin Tauber: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tauber/

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When Maddie Reese discovered AI tools in June, she’d never written a line of code. Six months later, she’d won multiple hackathons, built viral projects like Startup Obituary and Pet Hero Comics, and quit her job to go full-time as a vibe coder.

In this episode of In The Blink of AI, Georgie Healy sits down with Maddie to unpack what “vibe coding” actually is, and why joy might be the best productivity hack of all. From debugging API keys with ChatGPT to using Lovable, Cursor, and Replit to build entire web apps in hours, Maddie shares her exact workflow, her biggest “LLM gaslight” moment, and how she’s turning play into a career.

Expect practical tips for no-coders, hilarious guinea-pig side quests, and a refreshingly real take on the future of AI creativity.

00:00 – Welcome to In The Blink of AI with Georgie Healy

03:50 – AI Hack of the Week: Poke bot + Suno music app

08:37 – Maddie’s first project: cloning Google Drive in 4 hours

14:03 – Startup Obituary: a memorial for your failed startup 💀

15:35 – Debugging 101: what to do when API keys break everything

19:15 – Roast My App: Guinea Pig of the Day 🐹

22:24 – Using ChatGPT + Cursor + Lovable together

27:06 – Snog / Marry / Avoid: Lovable, Replit & Cursor

28:36 – Quitting her family business to go full-time in AI

30:46 – Getting through frustration (and proving ChatGPT wrong)

33:45 – Why you should hit “Publish” even if it’s not perfect

37:24 – How to recover when a prompt breaks your build

38:44 – Which tool to use: Lovable vs Cursor vs GitHub

39:33 – Is vibe coding dying or hotter than ever?

41:45 – What happens if vibe coding actually does die?

42:46 – Hot Takes 🔥 Non-engineers are the future of tech

49:10 – What’s next for Maddie Reese

🙋‍♀️ Maddie Reese: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maddiedreese

🪩 Maddie’s Projects: https://maddiedreese.com/

🐦 Twitter / X: https://x.com/maddiedreese

💻 YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@maddiedreese

✨ Lovable: https://www.lovable.dev

💬 Cursor: https://cursor.sh

💡 Replit: https://replit.com

🎵 Suno Music AI: https://www.suno.ai

📱 Poke by Interaction: https://poke.com/

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Before AI was cool, Dominick Ng was already building it. From a tiny country town in regional NSW to a PhD, a Fulbright Scholarship, and nine years at Google, Dom’s journey is the definition of technical brilliance meets humility. Today, he’s the Director of Engineering at Relevance AI, one of Australia’s fastest-growing agentic AI startups, backed by global investors and reshaping how teams build with large language models.

In this episode of In The Blink of AI, Georgie Healy sits down with Dom to talk about the real limits of agentic AI, why Australia needs to embrace experimentation, and how to build world-class engineering teams that can move fast without losing soul.

Dom explains how AI-assisted coding is changing what engineers can do in a weekend, what makes a great AI hire, and why “if you can’t onboard a person, you can’t onboard an agent.” He also breaks down why Meta’s hiring strategy looks so extreme, what China’s AI talent boom really means, and the cringe misconceptions about AI “making us lazy.”

If you’ve ever wanted to truly understand what’s behind the hype, this conversation will make you smarter (and probably a bit more patient with your next API error).

👨‍💻 Dominick Ng (LinkedIn): https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominickng/

🏗️ Relevance AI: https://www.relevanceai.com/

🧠 Vibe Sliding (Relevance AI feature): https://chat.relevanceai.com/

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Before he was a VC-backed founder, Harrison Kennedy was walking for Louis Vuitton, Saint Laurent, and Tiffany & Co., a teenager from the Gold Coast suddenly living a global modeling career. When COVID hit, that world stopped. What began as a mental health podcast with a friend became Really Mental, a media company backed by Amazon, reaching 25 million people and hundreds of millions of collective followers.

Now, Harrison’s building ReFresh, an emotional intelligence platform that helps companies detect how their people are feeling. Using AI models that analyse tone, text, and behavioural signals across tools like Slack and Google Workspace, ReFresh helps organisations measure mental wellbeing, burnout risk, and compliance, all while keeping employees anonymous.

In this episode of In The Blink of AI, Georgie Healy and Harrison talk about the evolution from creator to founder, how AI can be used to understand humans rather than replace them, and what it really means to build a values-driven company. Harrison shares lessons on patience, communication, and curiosity, and why in a world that’s more “connected” than ever, loneliness is still one of tech’s biggest unsolved problems.

🙋‍♂️ Harrison Kennedy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrison-kennedy-81b7171a1/

💡 ReFresh: https://www.refr-esh.com/

🎧 Really Mental (Podcast): https://pods.to/reallymental

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When Mike Keating and Haziq Nordin founded Enhance Labs, they raised millions without a product, a pitch deck, or even a bank account. Backed by Blackbird and QIC, they became known for their unfiltered takes, chaotic energy, and refusal to ship something they didn’t believe in, even as the rest of the AI world raced to launch.

For months, they experimented in the shadows, building, pivoting, and learning why most AI startups were destined to fail. Then came the breakthrough: a way to let every user design their own personal internet, a “living interface” that could reshape how humans interact with software.

In this episode, Mike and Haziq share why they chose velocity and vibes over hype, how playfulness and curiosity became their competitive edge, and why founders must know when not to finish something. They break down what AI products will collapse by 2026, the open problems that still need a Nobel Prize, and why the next wave of innovation will come from the weird ones, the teams laughing the loudest while everyone else plays safe.

🙋‍♂️ Mike Keating: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikekeating/

🤖 Haziq Nordin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haziq-nordin-1a6623107/

🚀 Enhance Labs: https://enhancelabs.ai/

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