
How to Be Awesome at Your Job 1111: How to Get Better Results from AI to Amplify Your Productivity with Gianluca Mauro
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Nov 17, 2025 Gianluca Mauro, Founder and CEO of AI Academy and author of Zero to AI, shares insights on maximizing productivity with AI. He emphasizes the importance of mindset over tools and warns against the pitfalls of AI 'workslop,' which can undermine credibility. Gianluca introduces the CIDI framework for effective AI prompting and discusses AI's strengths in tasks like copywriting and analysis. He encourages using AI to enhance curiosity and critical thinking, rather than as a shortcut for laziness, and offers practical examples for automation to boost efficiency.
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Diaper Factory Vision System
- Gianluca described building an AI system to inspect diapers on a factory line for defects using rapid imagery.
- He used visual inspection to optimize elastic roll size and reduce waste years before ChatGPT popularized AI.
Habits Outweigh Tools
- The biggest AI bottleneck today is habit change, not tools or prompting skill.
- Adopt workflows that embed AI daily to get real productivity gains, like someone who actually goes to the gym.
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