AI Becomes Your Personal Mentor and Builds Custom Dashboards with Rob Williams

22 Jul 2025 • 61 min • EN
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In this episode, Aydin sits down with Rob Williams, a former Chief Product Officer turned AI consultant, to explore the future of work, apps, and personal development—powered by generative AI. Rob demos Limitless, an AI pendant that helps him become a better human, and Claude Code, an agentic AI development environment that builds apps like a team of tireless developers. Plus, he shares his game-changing discovery-to-deliverable workflow that cuts a week’s worth of consulting into a single day. Timestamps: 01:00 – Rob’s tech background and founding an AI consultancy 05:01 – Demo 1: Limitless AI pendant – the wearable mentor 08:19 – Rob’s daily AI automations for personal growth 10:28 – The privacy dilemma and how Rob handles it 13:35 – Society’s shifting comfort with constant recording 18:20 – Rewind: screen-tracking AI and quantified work 21:16 – Dystopia or augmentation? Competing views on AI ubiquity 27:02 – Demo 2: Claude Code – a real agentic AI dev experience 33:10 – Claude Code spins up dashboards from Excel in minutes 37:39 – Debugging and security auditing with Claude 40:20 – Rob’s gamified AI-powered habit tracker 41:47 – Claude Code for prototyping with dev teams 44:47 – Implications: Will dynamic apps kill the App Store? 47:00 – AI as the new operating system 50:26 – Future: UIs disappear, apps build themselves 52:00 – Demo 3 (Explained): Deep research AI for consulting workflows 54:00 – Talking for the AI: How Rob narrates calls for context 58:30 – Why you must rethink—not just speed up—your workflows 59:36 – Two more tips (in newsletter only!) Tools & Technologies Mentioned: Limitless (limitless.ai) – Wearable AI pendant that records, transcribes, and summarizes your day with daily automations and feedback loops. Claude Code – Anthropic’s CLI tool for building full applications using agentic AI workflows, including dependency management and debugging. Rewind – Screen-capturing app that logs your activity with searchable recall capabilities. Fellow – AI meeting tool that transcribes and summarizes meetings. Used by Rob for work-related action tracking. Typora – Markdown editor Rob uses to annotate and refine AI outputs. Deep Research – Rob’s name for his long-context LLM-based analysis prompt stack, used for summarizing 20+ hour discovery projects. RescueTime – Productivity analytics tool used to track app usage and categorize time spent. 👉 Subscribe at⁠ thisnewway.com⁠ to get the step-by-step playbooks, tools, and workflows.

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