What's Possible with AI in 2026: From Flashy Demos to Quiet Leverage (TPS600)

To Shopify for supporting the productivity show. Shopify is a platform designed for anyone to sell anywhere, giving entrepreneurs like ourselves the resources once reserved for big business. Sign up for your $1 per month trial period at shopify.com/tps. Welcome to the productivity show, a podcast where we believe that people like you can get the important things done without sacrificing your health, family, and things that matter to you. If it's your first time listening, welcome to the show. I'm Tan, founder of Asian Efficiency. I live here in Austin, Texas and I do this podcast together with my co host Brooks Duncan all the way from Vancouver, Canada. How are you today, Brooks? I'm great. This is a exciting episode. It's episode number 600. And usually when we hit these 100 milestones, we try to do something a little different. We've done q and a's. We've done lessons learned. We've got, you know, multiple people on. You know, we always try to do something special for 600, and I'm excited for what we have cooking today or more accurately what you have cooking today. Yeah. We're gonna be talking about AI, and I've been obsessed with AI and specifically, Clawbot or as it's called OpenClaw nowadays. And we're gonna start diving deeper into that and what it can do and what's possible and the security risk and what you need to do and not do. But then also in a broader sense of what AI is actually capable of as we're now in 2026 because this space is moving so fast. People are so overwhelmed. There's a lot going on, and oftentimes people don't even know where to start. And that's oftentimes the the challenge I hear most people have is, like, you hear about it on the news, it's every day everywhere, but then what do you actually do to get going and what is this, like, claw bot thing that people keep talking about or OpenClaw? So we're gonna dive into all of this here today. As always, we'd like to start off with our top three favorite resources. So the first one is Whisperflow. This is a dictation app that you can use on your computer and your phone. Now what's different about this versus like the natural dictation that is included on your phone or computer is that it's a little bit smarter and it does a better job of formatting. And so if you think about natural dictation, it's kind of like a long wall of text typically, and it it's gotten a little better where it'll, like, capitalize names and such. Whereas with something like Whisperflow, anytime you say something and before it produces something, there's like a layer of, like, AI in between. And so, for example, if I'm writing an email in Gmail, it will format it accordingly. And so, for example, if I say, hey, Brooks, Could you get me these three things, one, two, and three? It will …