AI Becomes Your Personal Mentor and Builds Custom Dashboards with Rob Williams

In this episode, Aydin sits down with Rob Williams, a former Chief Product Officer turned AI consultant, to explore the future of work, apps, and personal development—powered by generative AI. Rob demos Limitless, an AI pendant that helps him become a better human, and Claude Code, an agentic AI development environment that builds apps like a team of tireless developers. Plus, he shares his game-changing discovery-to-deliverable workflow that cuts a week’s worth of consulting into a single day.

Timestamps:

01:00 – Rob’s tech background and founding an AI consultancy

05:01 – Demo 1: Limitless AI pendant – the wearable mentor

08:19 – Rob’s daily AI automations for personal growth

10:28 – The privacy dilemma and how Rob handles it

13:35 – Society’s shifting comfort with constant recording

18:20 – Rewind: screen-tracking AI and quantified work

21:16 – Dystopia or augmentation? Competing views on AI ubiquity

27:02 – Demo 2: Claude Code – a real agentic AI dev experience

33:10 – Claude Code spins up dashboards from Excel in minutes

37:39 – Debugging and security auditing with Claude

40:20 – Rob’s gamified AI-powered habit tracker

41:47 – Claude Code for prototyping with dev teams

44:47 – Implications: Will dynamic apps kill the App Store?

47:00 – AI as the new operating system

50:26 – Future: UIs disappear, apps build themselves

52:00 – Demo 3 (Explained): Deep research AI for consulting workflows

54:00 – Talking for the AI: How Rob narrates calls for context

58:30 – Why you must rethink—not just speed up—your workflows

59:36 – Two more tips (in newsletter only!)

Tools & Technologies Mentioned:

Limitless (limitless.ai) – Wearable AI pendant that records, transcribes, and summarizes your day with daily automations and feedback loops.

Claude Code – Anthropic’s CLI tool for building full applications using agentic AI workflows, including dependency management and debugging.

Rewind – Screen-capturing app that logs your activity with searchable recall capabilities.

Fellow – AI meeting tool that transcribes and summarizes meetings. Used by Rob for work-related action tracking.

Typora – Markdown editor Rob uses to annotate and refine AI outputs.

Deep Research – Rob’s name for his long-context LLM-based analysis prompt stack, used for summarizing 20+ hour discovery projects.

RescueTime – Productivity analytics tool used to track app usage and categorize time spent.

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