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Weekly Blitz: AI Should Remove Desk Work, Not People: A Real Workflow Test
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- Aug 24, 2026
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION Jason 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-HOST Julie 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 LINKS Julie Koehrer on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliekoehrer Q106.7: https://lafayetteq1067.com/ TIME STAMPS 00:00 - Julie's Joyful Journey celebrity softball game 01:20 - Two polished AI dashboards that completely missed the assignment 07:12 - The useful answer: remove desk work, keep Julie 09:19 - Building a reusable prospect brief before the client meeting 13:06 - Jason offers Julie a one-month paid ChatGPT experiment 15:01 - When good enough AI work beats endless design revisions 19:41 - Teaching people…