Knowitall Doctors, Mac Keyboards, More Love for CoWork, and Maybe it was the Models After All
Release Date: 03/24/2026
Raw Data with Rob Collie
The job hunt is a numbers game. The problem is, the numbers are brutal. Hundreds of applicants per role. Ghosted applications. “Entry level” jobs asking for experience no one at 22 could possibly have. In this episode, Rob brings on his daughter Ella, a college senior in the middle of it, and hands her something different. Not advice. Not a better resume template. A coworker that doesn’t get tired, doesn’t lose track, and doesn’t stop digging. Within 48 hours, she’s using Claude Cowork to search across sources, filter for real roles, verify listings, organize everything into a...
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The work feels different now. You can hear it in this one. Something that used to feel like overhead suddenly starts pulling its weight. Not a demo. Not something you have to babysit. It’s actually doing useful work while you’re still figuring out what you want. That’s a weird moment the first time you see it. And then it stops being weird and just becomes the new normal. It shows up in a few places here. Cowork starts earning its keep. The “data gene” gets reworked into something that fits where things are going. And there’s a moment that might make you a little uncomfortable if...
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Most AI still lives in the “that’s pretty cool” category. It answers questions, writes a decent paragraph, maybe even points you in the right direction. And then you still have to go do the work. That line is starting to move. Not in theory. In real, hands on, open the file and keep going kind of ways. We’re talking about outputs that don’t fall apart the second you touch them. Work that shows up structured, editable, and worth building on. That’s a very different experience than what most people think of when they hear “AI.” Some of this stuff still feels like a demo. You try...
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Most people think they’ve already experienced AI. They’ve asked a chatbot a question, had it summarize something, maybe even draft an email. That version is useful, but it isn’t the one that actually changes how work gets done. The real shift starts when AI stops talking about work and starts participating in it. That’s the moment Rob ran into while experimenting with Cowork tools, and it was convincing enough to push him into changes he hasn’t made since the DOS era. Microsoft just announced Copilot Cowork, and Rob thinks it could turn out to be the most significant AI product...
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Every once in a while a new tool shows up that bends the career curve for a certain kind of person. Not everyone. Just the people with that itch to poke at systems until they finally give up their secrets. The same instinct that used to turn someone into the unofficial Excel wizard in the office is now colliding with AI development tools that can help you build real software. If you have the data gene, this moment feels a little like someone just handed you a much bigger toolbox. It has a lot in common with what happened when Power BI first showed up. For years the people who understood the...
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Rob and Justin had a plan. Scale Justin's brain across the entire P3 consulting team. Build an AI agent that bottled up his frameworks, his instincts, the way he navigates AI conversations with clients. In theory, everyone gets smarter overnight. It was a solid idea. The tech worked. The knowledge base was deep. The guardrails were tight. And almost nobody used it. Not because it was broken. Because the team wasn't waking up thinking, "Man, if only I could channel Justin right now." That wasn't the fire in front of them. So instead of feeling like leverage, the agent felt like homework. And...
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There’s an easy button for hard conversations now, and it’s dangerously good. You’ve got something complicated to say. It needs nuance. It needs empathy. It probably needs a little courage. The AI will draft the whole thing in seconds. It sounds smart. It sounds reasonable. You skim it. You send it. And most of the time, nothing bad happens. The problem is that the time it does go bad is the exact situation where you thought you were being thoughtful. This week’s Raw Data walks straight through one of those moments, from both sides of the exchange, and it’s a reminder that...
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In this week's episode, Rob and Justin dig into the weird paralysis happening at enterprise scale. Fortune 500 companies are spending six months in high-level negotiations to build AI workflows that could be done in a week. IT departments, trained for decades to fear custom code, are watching their companies get lapped by competitors who just decided to turn the thing on. Everyone's releasing agent frameworks, every AI company's got one, some have more than one, and instead of clarifying things, it's freezing people up.. There's a massive gap between what AI can do right now and what most...
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This week’s episode steps away from dashboards and delivery stories and into real life. Rob and Justin both spent the same week realizing how naturally AI is already showing up at home. Not as a plan. Not as a lesson. Just as part of how the next generation creates, explores, and even plans a date. One household includes an about to graduate computer science student navigating a shrinking entry level job market, Discord as the default communication layer, and a Claude Code powered date night that feels entirely normal to everyone involved. The other involves younger kids, a TV, a terminal...
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This week’s episode is a case study in what AI looks like when it’s doing real work. runs an insurance company in Spain. Industry average profit margin is 5%. He's at 15%, headed for 18%. The difference? Five AI agents in production doing real work. Not pilot projects. Not demos for the board. Actual agents handling claims, customer questions, marketing decisions, fraud detection, and underwriting. His claims adjusters went from 10 cases a day to 50 because the AI does everything except the stuff that actually needs a human. Here's the thing. Juan started this in mid-2023 with GPT-3.5....
info_outlineMost AI still lives in the “that’s pretty cool” category. It answers questions, writes a decent paragraph, maybe even points you in the right direction. And then you still have to go do the work.
That line is starting to move. Not in theory. In real, hands on, open the file and keep going kind of ways. We’re talking about outputs that don’t fall apart the second you touch them. Work that shows up structured, editable, and worth building on. That’s a very different experience than what most people think of when they hear “AI.”
Some of this stuff still feels like a demo. You try it, you nod, and then you go back to doing things the old way. Other parts are starting to feel different. You give it something real and it gives you something back you can use without starting over. That’s the shift. And once you see it, it’s hard to unsee.
Listen to the episode and decide where AI in your business is still a demo and where it’s finally ready to pull its weight.