AfterThePrompt is a show about what happens when AI moves faster than people, companies, and culture can keep up.
Hosts Jay and Greg share field notes from the real world: why adoption lags, what finally makes it click, and how these tools change the way we work, decide, and communicate. Most episodes stay grounded in everyday use and organizational reality, with occasional special conversations that zoom out to the wider ripple effects.
Practical where it matters. Curious where it’s headed.
Stop Prompting, Start Managing: The Rise of AI-Run Teams (Ep 5)
The conversation delves into the lessons learned from using vibe coding and the challenges faced in managing handoffs and processes in AI-centric development. It explores the need for a shift in mentality and management mode when transitioning from vibe coding to market-ready production. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of managing handoffs and the impact of AI on traditional software development processes. The conversation delves into the impact of fast prototyping, challenges with agile implementation, misalignment between business and development, the importance of prototyping sessions, transitioning to managing AI teams, human barriers and mental shift, challenges for developers turned managers, transitioning roles in the business, shift in business and technical roles, increasing proper stakeholders, iterative process and checks & balances, evolving work processes, building and iterating specialists, and the future of specialized teams.
Takeaways
Lessons from using vibe coding
Managing handoffs and processes in AI-centric development Fast prototyping enables individual contributors to build what a whole team would have previously built.
The shift to fast prototyping requires a mental shift and upskilling of individual contributors.
Chapters
00:00 Managing Handoffs and Processes in AI-Centric Development
35:00 The Impact of Fast Prototyping
40:14 Agile Methods Across the Enterprise
46:25 Human Barriers and Mental Shift
52:34 Increasing Proper Stakeholders
58:33 Building and Iterating Specialists
5 Feb 2026
From Idea to App: Building with AI (What’s Real vs Risky) (Ep 4)
The conversation delves into the impact of AI on software development, exploring its evolution, role as a force multiplier, impact on the development workflow, improvements in AI-assisted tools, defining constraints and guardrails, considerations for AI in software projects, and a personal experience with AI-assisted software development. The conversation delves into the impact of AI on development, highlighting the evolution of the development experience, the response of developers to AI integration, and the benefits and cautions associated with leveraging AI for prototyping and stakeholder understanding. It also addresses challenges in infrastructure and provides a future outlook on AI's role in software development.
Takeaways
AI-assisted software development
Impact of AI on software development AI continues to lower the entry barrier, but the responsibility is scaling with the impact
AI can be leveraged for prototyping and mocking up applications, but caution is needed when dealing with sensitive data
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to AI-Assisted Software Development
07:16 AI as a Force Multiplier in Software Development
13:08 Improvements in AI-Assisted Software Development Tools
21:15 Considerations for AI in Software Development Projects
30:00 Navigating High-Stakes Development
35:03 Developer Response to AI Integration
41:54 AI's Role in Prototyping and Stakeholder Understanding
47:03 AI's Benefits and Cautions
29 Jan 2026
AI Is a Mirror: Clarity, Taste, Ego (Ep 3)
The conversation delves into the concept of AI as a mirror, reflecting the user's input and output, leading to feelings of competence and ego. It emphasizes an iterative approach and a shift to a leadership mindset when working with AI. The chapters cover the introduction to AI as a mirror, the clarity mirror, the taste mirror, the ego mirror, and the trust ladder and rules for working with AI.
Takeaways
AI as a Mirror
Iterative Approach
Shift to Leadership Mindset
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to AI as a Mirror
09:35 Clarity as the First Mirror
18:08 Taste as a Mirror
26:33 Ego as the Final Mirror
38:42 Trust Ladder and Rules
22 Jan 2026
Why AI Adoption Stalls: Fear, Friction & Overload (Ep 2)
The podcast introduces a name change and discusses the challenges of AI adoption, focusing on fear, friction, and overload as barriers. It explores the types of fear, privacy concerns, and low-drama ways to overcome fear. Additionally, it delves into the concept of friction in AI adoption. The conversation delves into the complexities of human interaction with AI, exploring the nuances of human interaction with other humans, computers, and AI. It also addresses the friction involved in AI adoption, highlighting the challenges and expectations associated with interacting with AI. Additionally, the overload of AI tools and the process of tool selection are discussed, shedding light on the overwhelming options and the need for careful consideration.
Takeaways
AI adoption challenges
Fear, Friction, and Overload as barriers to AI adoption Human Interaction with AI
Friction in AI Adoption
Chapters
00:00 Introducing After the Prompt
07:33 Fear of AI Adoption
14:24 Types of Fear
22:07 Overcoming Fear
28:33 Friction in AI Adoption
34:44 Overload and Tool Selection
21 Jan 2026
AI Innovation Is Exploding Why Is Adoption So Slow? (Ep 1)
The conversation delves into the rapid pace of AI innovation, the slow adoption of AI technology, and the impact of AI on professional roles. It begins with an introduction to Prompt and Circumstance, followed by discussions on the impact of AI innovation, observations on AI adoption, the chasm between early and late majority, and the paradox of slow adoption.
Takeaways
AI innovation is moving at a rapid pace
Slow adoption of AI technology
The impact of AI on professional roles
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Prompt and Circumstance
08:06 Observations on AI Adoption
17:33 The Chasm Between Early and Late Majority
33:16 The Paradox of Slow Adoption
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