This week I interviewed David Berkowitz, founder of AI Marketers Guild and a longtime CMO now working with Mailchimp, about building real products without writing a line of code. Berkowitz shares a personal success story: teaching himself to ship landing pages, full sites, and usable products with AI tools, despite knowing only a sliver of HTML and none of the languages that make up a developer's toolkit.

David built his product line on Lovable, after starting with Base44, including Extra Lovable, a site that manages his other Lovable projects, and imfindable.com, a job search tool that went from idea to public launch in two days. He walked through why that speed changes the math entirely: a project that once cost tens of thousands of dollars and months of agency time now costs about fifty dollars in AI credits and a weekend of his own attention.

That thread runs through my own experience too, including a running clothes calculator built start to finish in four hours, and the two swap stories about how fast the ground has shifted since their social media days together.

David also traces AI Marketers Guild back to 2022, when early access to the OpenAI Playground at Mediaocean produced a mock press release so convincing that his CMO thought it was too polished for an early beta model, months before ChatGPT ever launched. He closes with his hope for AI: unlocking the creative and analytical potential in people who never had the tools to bring their ideas to life before, and letting them finally bring their whole selves to their work.

Listen today on Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts!

1:02 builtthatwithai.com Showcase

1:31 Building Without Code

2:32 Favorite AI Platforms

5:09 Origin of AI Marketers Guild

7:52 AI's Hope for Business

9:04 Go Knicks

David on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dberkowitz/

Build with That: https://highcaliberai.com/built-with-ai

AI Marketers Guild: https://aimarketersguild.com/

AI Hope Episode 4: Phil Gerbyshak on Surviving Teaching with AI

Geoff Livingston interviews Phil “Phil Gerb” Gerbyshak, a high school IT teacher and Substack writer, about using AI as a practical survival tool. Gerbyshak shares a personal success story: Walking into a new teaching role with no curriculum and using AI to navigate it. Phil used ChatGPT (plus some Gemini and Copilot) to build lesson plans, tests, and course materials for programming and video game design, saying he wouldn’t have made it through the year without it.

Phil describes generally positive acceptance from fellow teachers, contrasts that with backlash he’s seen in marketing, and attributes resistance to fear and job-loss anxiety amid layoffs. He also discusses using AI as a developmental editor for his upcoming book, Slow Happiness (expected in October), and closes with a “happy tip” to slow down and enjoy life.

01:50 Teachers Embrace AI

03:11 Marketing Backlash

06:00 Slow Happiness Book

07:06 AI as Editor

08:46 Hopes for AI

09:25 Happy Tip

Follow Phil on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philgerb/

Phil’s Happiness Practices project: https://happyaf.substack.com/

Geoff Livingston interviews Lindsey Mastis, a former broadcast journalist who became one of the first to cover AI as a regular beat and now trains others on using AI while speaking on social good at conferences, including in Geneva and at the UN.

Mastis shares a personal AI success story: using an LLM to plan a winter trip to Greec. She also shares using AI tools for self-coaching, translating her family history into Greek, and communicating via translation apps to connect with her ancestral “martyr village,” meet locals, and speak with a survivor who fled as a child during wartime fires.

She recalls ChatGPT’s launch as a “now is gone” moment that reignited the excitement she once felt for augmented reality, contrasting it with newsroom resistance to new technology. Mastis is most optimistic about medical AI, citing at-home diagnostic tools and augmented-reality-assisted training that could reduce medical errors and unnecessary ER visits.

01:30 AI Trip Planning Greece

02:50 Finding Ancestral Village

05:46 ChatGPT Beat Breakthrough

07:55 Newsroom Resistance to AI

09:16 Hopeful Future Medical AI

You can find Lindsey on LinkedIn here.
Check out her company Blue Moves Media here.