Weekly Blitz: AI Should Remove Desk Work, Not People: A Real Workflow Test

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONJason promised Julie Koehrer an AI workflow that could take prospecting, proposal prep, order entry, and follow-up off her desk. The first two attempts were beautiful, polished, and completely wrong. The third finally found the point: AI should remove desk work, not Julie.That failure becomes the most useful part of the experiment. Jason and Julie talk through why context matters, where human judgment still belongs, and how much imperfection is acceptable when AI saves hours of repetitive work. Jason also offers Julie a one-month paid ChatGPT experiment so they can test the workflow in public.The conversation moves into local AI video production with MiniMax H3, the flood of automated solicitation on LinkedIn, and the growing fight over data centers, power, tax incentives, and public accountability. The practical thread holds: use AI to create more room for relationships and judgment, then make companies and public officials answer for the costs pushed onto communities.ABOUT THE CO-HOSTJulie Koehrer is an on-air personality and branding and marketing consultant with Q106.7 and Woof Boom Radio in Lafayette, Indiana. She brings nearly two decades of radio experience and a practical marketer's skepticism to The Weekly Blitz.CO-HOST LINKSJulie Koehrer on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliekoehrerQ106.7: https://lafayetteq1067.com/TIME STAMPS00:00 - Julie's Joyful Journey celebrity softball game01:20 - Two polished AI dashboards that completely missed the assignment07:12 - The useful answer: remove desk work, keep Julie09:19 - Building a reusable prospect brief before the client meeting13:06 - Jason offers Julie a one-month paid ChatGPT experiment15:01 - When good enough AI work beats endless design revisions19:41 - Teaching people to build their own AI workflows22:06 - Agent employees, local models, and a Mac mini AI lab25:39 - Testing MiniMax H3 as an always-on video studio28:08 - Why AI keeps writing like an influencer30:21 - Automated solicitation and the collapse of real connection37:50 - Northwest Indiana outages and the data-center fight46:17 - An agentic human design process built around judgmentCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Chief Solutions Architect at Chakra AI SolutionsCo-Founder of Wooden Boy Industries📧 [email protected]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIONo Code CAIO newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/newsletter/Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → [email protected] PODCAST NETWORKSchool's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notesIndiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAll AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/networkTOOLS JASON RECOMMENDSMindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgettRESOURCES MENTIONEDJoyful Journey Adult Day Service: https://joyfuljourneywl.org/Claude Design: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labsChatGPT Images 2.0, April 2026: https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-0/MiniMax H3 open-source video model, August 2026: https://www.minimax.io/news/minimax-h3-open-sourceEmpire of AI by Karen Hao: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/460331/empire-of-ai-by-hao-karen/9781802064650Texas data-center interconnection audit, August 2026: https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-directs-comprehensive-data-center-audit