Shedlife Podcast - How You Can Get AI to Do the Jobs of Many People
On the Shedlife Podcast, Waboom's Leonardo Garcia Curtis makes the case that one person armed with AI can quietly do the work of many - no extra hires required.
Key takeaway the productivity dividend isn't in working harder, it's in handing the busywork to AI.
On the Shedlife Podcast, Leonardo Garcia Curtis of Waboom digs into a question every stretched Kiwi operator is quietly asking: how do you get AI to do the jobs of many people? His answer is productivity - pointing AI at the repetitive, time-hungry work that would otherwise swallow a whole team's week.
The framing is practical rather than futuristic. Rather than a story about replacing staff, it's about the leverage a small crew gains when AI shoulders the grunt work, freeing the humans for the parts of the job that genuinely need them.
For New Zealand's small and medium businesses - long on ambition, short on headcount - that's the whole game. If a lean team can punch like a much bigger one by handing the busywork to AI, the productivity gap with the big players starts to close. It's a grounded look at doing more without hiring more.
“Turns out the cheapest new hire is the one that never asks for a lunch break.” — The Nation's Mother, The 6 O’Clock News