Into the Field – Working With AI Deliberately | Chatty’s Angels Ep 1 Pt 2 |

This episode of Chatty's Angels is a grounded conversation about what it means to work with AI deliberately rather than by default.

Breaking free from copy-paste culture – on assignment into the depths of human–AI collaboration.

Joost Postma, Natalie de Groot, and David Baldwin Friedman explore three connected themes: discernment and responsibility in AI use, how creativity can occur through structure rather than shortcuts, and what it takes to encode human thinking into systems that can actually collaborate.

Rather than treating AI as something to either trust or fear, the conversation stays with the practical question of what we are participating in when we use it. Fluent answers, data sharing, and convenience all come with tradeoffs, and the focus here is on developing the judgment to know when to rely on AI, when to verify it, and when confidence should give way to caution. Questions of consent, exposure, and responsibility surface through concrete examples, not abstract principles.

Creativity is approached not as a debate about whether AI is creative, but as a question of how creativity happens. The emphasis moves away from outputs and toward inputs, framing, and context – designing the conditions in which something genuinely new can emerge through collaboration, rather than reproduction through copy-paste patterns.

A key thread in the episode is the idea of externalizing and encoding one’s own thinking into AI. Instead of holding everything in one’s head, structured environments, roles, and personas are used to give both the human and the system durable context. This kind of internal architecture reduces cognitive load, preserves intent, and makes deeper collaboration possible over time.

If you missed Episode 1 Pt 1: Suiting Up →    • Suiting Up → How the Angels Met the Machin...  

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David Baldwin Friedman:
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About Chatty’s Angels

Chatty’s Angels is a podcast hosted by Joost Postma, Natalie de Groot, and David Baldwin Friedman for those weary of endless AI productivity hacks and careless copy-paste culture. Anyone curious what lies beneath the surface of AI and fellow restless experimenters will be in good company here.

Follow along on our human–AI missions in the name of Chatty: deep experiments, tough questions, and glimpses into conversations that usually stay behind closed doors. We work with AI in practice, not theory, sharing what we try, what surprises us, and where it feels wrong as well as right.

Each episode blends curiosity, rigor, and humor to uncover the sparks that fly when human imagination and machine intelligence collide, drawn from the synthesis of our experiences and experiments.

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