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The Productivity Rocket Ship
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- Apr 25, 2026
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- 345
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Summary
On today’s show we are talking about yet another transformative innovation in the world of artificial intelligence. I realize that this is a real estate podcast and not an AI podcast. But any business that builds its business systems around AI will experience transformation. So on today’s show I’m going to showcase two different innovations that have launched in the past week. Spoiler alert, not all of them are worth embracing. The first one is a new product called Claude Design. The idea is that you should be able to provide a description of what you want to create and the AI will generate it. You can seed the process with examples. In one test case, I wanted to create a new building design. The floorplan is based on an existing design with 2BR apartments. I wanted to change the 2BR apartments with a 1BR apartment, but maintain the overall theme of the building. After half a dozen iterations, each one as bad as the one before, I gave up and realized that I would not converge on anything useful anytime soon. Unfortunately I have to give Claude Design a failing grade. I’m sure it will improve, but it’s not close. You will see dozens of YouTube videos talking about how great Claude design is. I can tell you that it is not great yet. This past week, OpenAI introduced the latest release of Codex. This is the OpenAI answer to Claude Code and Claude Cowork. As is so often the case in the tech industry, competitors will often leapfrog each other. The new Codex release from earlier this week is precisely one of those moments. Codex is now capable of interacting with any application on your computer just like a person. Most other AI applications are looking for a machine to machine interface in order to properly create an integrated AI agent flow. But Codex interacts with any a…