117: Today in AI: Claude Code Goes Viral, 94% Need AI Training, Notebook LM Makes Slides

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First aired: 5 January 2026

Summary: Claude Code has suddenly become the talk of the internet, and honestly, it's about time people caught on. I've been using it daily for years, and while it's been brilliant for coding, people are now realising it can do so much more than just write programs. There's genuine excitement brewing that this might be the closest thing we have to AGI right now. The barrier for most people has been that it looks intimidating compared to ChatGPT, but once you get past that initial hesitation and actually start playing around with it, you realise why everyone's going mad for it (In this session I walk you through how to get started with Claude Code).

On a completely different note, I've been banging on about the massive opportunity in AI training for 2026. McKinsey found that 94% of companies say they need AI training, but only 1% of staff have received adequate training. That's not a gap, that's a canyon. We're moving out of the experimental phase where companies just gave everyone access to ChatGPT and said "figure it out" — now they actually need to see returns on investment. The brilliant thing is you don't need a PhD in machine learning to teach this stuff. What companies actually need are people who understand their specific industry and can communicate why AI matters in language they understand.

I’m running a few live webinars walking you through the opportunity and how to get started: https://aiwithkyle.com/ai-workshop-series/webinar

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—— Time Stamps ——

0:00 Why Everyone's Talking About Claude Code

1:08 McKinsey Study: 94% Need AI Training

4:38 Google Engineer Solves Year-Long Project in 1 Hour

6:02 Andrej Karpathy's Crisis of Confidence

7:43 Coding is Now a Solved Problem

8:11 Claude Code Beginner's Guide

9:08 Claude Code Beyond Programming

10:26 Managing AI Agents is a Management Skill

11:06 Three Ways to Access Claude Code

13:08 Claude Code Web Setup Tutorial

15:34 Live Demo: Building a Tech Community App

17:41 How Claude Code Differs From ChatGPT

18:10 Q&A: Will Prompt Writers Replace Developers?

19:18 Q&A: Terminal vs Web vs IDE

21:27 Deep Learning AI Free Courses

22:07 Claude Code: You Don't Need the Complex Stuff

22:30 How Claude Code's Creator Uses It

23:34 Running 10-15 Claude Instances in Parallel

24:14 Why Opus 4.5 is Worth the Wait

25:09 Claude Develops Claude (Self-Improving AI)

25:38 Q&A: Version Control Importance

26:18 Q&A: MCPs vs Skills Explained

28:08 Q&A: Antigravity vs Cursor

29:16 Google's Vibe Coding Tool Problem

29:52 Claude Code Web Limitations

30:50 The "AI is Crap" Argument Has Collapsed

32:40 New Arguments Against AI

33:34 Feeling Behind? Even Karpathy Does Too

34:15 AI Workshop Business ($2K-$4K/Hour)

35:59 Q&A: Best Path for AI Beginners

37:15 44,000 AI Tools: Avoiding Overwhelm

38:40 Converting Lovable Apps to Mobile

40:05 Q&A: Bolt vs Lovable vs Claude Code

41:11 Why Britain is Losing the AI Race

43:32 The AI Graveyard Problem

44:00 Building is Easy, Marketing is Hard

45:00 NotebookLM: Presentations in 5 Minutes

46:51 Q&A: Thoughts on Grok

47:50 Outro & Webinar Info

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