Prompt Fiction is back. Sort of. After disappearing since May while actual work rudely got in the way, Season 2 begins with something a little different: the first Prompt Fiction Bonus Broadcast. Recorded live at Digital Hub Yeovil, Scott takes the stage for a rapid tour through what has changed in AI, what genuinely matters, and why giving AI hands might be considerably more important than simply making the models smarter. In this Bonus Broadcast: 🚀 Everything Got Better. Again. – GPT-6, smarter Copilot features, Gemini developments, new AI assistants and yet another pile of releases that made Scott's slides obsolete before he'd even presented them. Read More 🛑 Who's Building the Brakes? – AI leaders are increasingly talking about slowing frontier development and introducing stronger controls. Scott argues the concern isn't the ChatGPT on your laptop, but what happens at the frontier when enormous resources are being used to push capabilities we haven't encountered yet. Read More 🕵️ Claude's Invisible Watermark – Forget unreliable AI detectors. Anthropic is embedding machine-readable watermarks into Claude-generated text by subtly influencing token selection. No hidden characters, no obvious marker, and potentially much harder to remove by simply editing a few words. Read More 🧰 What's Your Harness? – Apparently this is something geeks say now. Scott explains the emerging idea of the AI “harness”: the tools, permissions and capabilities surrounding the underlying model, and why the brain itself may increasingly become interchangeable. Read More 📱 “Hello Laptop, Can You Hear Me?” – After discovering an important tender wasn't syncing to his phone, Scott remotely talks to ChatGPT on his Mac, finds the missing files, diagnoses OneDrive and restarts it without ever touching the computer. Welcome to conversational IT support. Read More 🍎 Siri Finally Gets Useful – The new Siri can understand personal context and act across Apple's ecosystem. Scott shares how it found an eBay email and forwarded it to Ellie while he was driving, without him ever touching his phone. Read More 📧 ChatGPT Becomes the PA – Scott dictates work while driving and asks ChatGPT to hand it over to Shane by email, explicitly identifying itself as AI. He also explores what happens when research, personalised outreach and sending email become one continuous conversation. Read More 🤝 Cowork Comes to the Cloud – Emails arrive, information needs extracting, a spreadsheet needs updating and everything needs filing afterwards. Instead of opening the laptop, Scott gives AI the workflow from his phone and heads off to play skittles. Read More 🖱️ AI Gets Hands – In a live demo, ChatGPT opens Excalidraw, figures out the interface, draws four hand-drawn website icons and exports them as SVGs while Scott watches. He also explains how the same approach removed hours of repetitive SharePoint permissions work. Read More ⚠️ When AI Breaks the Rules – Giving AI agency also means adding safeguards. Scott recounts asking ChatGPT to email Ellie during a live demo, only to discover it had sent an absurdly formal message without showing him first. The fix? A new rule: always show the human before pressing send. 🧰 Scott's Three Apps – HelpWire for simple remote support, ManicEMU for retro gaming on Apple devices, and Bitwarden for passwords and two-factor authentication. Plus, the audience shares tips covering Google Reviews, signing PDFs using Preview on a Mac, iPhone Back Tap, scheduled ChatGPT tasks and surprisingly sophisticated things you can build in PowerPoint. 🎙️ Prompt Fiction Season 2 Scott and Reece haven't vanished permanently. Prompt Fiction is returning with a more sustainable monthly format, looking beyond the relentless AI news cycle to explore what all this technology actually means for people. In between, expect more Bonus Broadcasts recorded out in the wild. Visit prompt-fiction.show and follow the show so you don't miss what comes next.
