In The Blink of AI with Georgie Healy Top 10 AI Hacks Of The Year
Episode Summary
2025 was the year AI stopped being hype and started showing up in the real world, in our phones, our homes, our hospitals, and even our holidays. But with the pace of change accelerating, how do you separate the genuine life-changing tools from the noise?
To close out a huge year of In The Blink of AI, Georgie has hand-picked the top ten AI hacks shared by founders, CTOs, designers, researchers, and creative experimenters on the show so far. These are the tools and prompts they actually use every day, to travel smarter, remove mental load, make better decisions, get up to speed fast, and even check their own blind spots.
In this special holiday edition, you’ll learn how to turn an AI into your personal tour guide, save hours of context-setting with one drag-and-drop move, let your kids solve the dinner dilemma, challenge your thinking before you hit publish, and unlock the real power of voice mode for deeper, more personalised results. Whether you’re a total beginner or already living in the multi-agent future, these hacks are your shortcut to a smarter 2026.
Grab your phone, open your favourite LLM, and try these out for yourself.
Time Stamps
00:00 — Why AI hacks matter more than ever
01:25 — Hack 1: A tour guide in your ear with voice mode (Dr Thomas Kelly)
03:59 — Hack 2: Poke, the life-organising bot hiding in iMessage (Maddie D Reese)
05:37 — Hack 3: Making personalised music with Suno
07:25 — Hack 4: Drag-and-drop context files to save hours (Isaac Peiris)
09:18 — Hack 5: AI-powered art hunts in Rome
11:46 — Hack 6: No more “What’s for dinner?” with fridge-vision prompts (Katherine Boiciuc)
14:49 — Hack 7: Why everyone is sleeping on voice for prompting (Mike Keating)
18:29 — Hack 8: Using AI to reveal your own blind spots (Sarah Kaur)
22:31 — Hack 9: The party-table prompt that gets personal fast (Kunal Gupta)
25:40 — Hack 10: Stress-testing technical architecture as a non-technical founder (Frank Greeff)
38:22 — What to expect from In The Blink of AI in 2026
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