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The Competent Amateur
Aussie transplant to Missouri Silentpoisen puts AI to work on real household problems, tornado kits, weekend planning, garage cleanouts, cooking without a recipe, and reports back what actually held up. His co-host Magpie, an AI voice who fact-checks and roasts him, keeps him honest. Both hosts are AI-generated, disclosed upfront: AI-built, human-shaped, wobbles kept on purpose. New episodes every Thursday.
Episodes
The Competent AmateurCooking Without a Recipe
No AI in the kitchen this time, just Silentpoisen cooking the same dish twice, once with the recipe and once from memory, to find out how much of cooking from…
The Competent AmateurAI Judges Our Argument
Silentpoisen and his partner disagree about where a new piece of furniture should go, so he asks AI to settle it, and writes a prompt so leading that Magpie…
The Competent AmateurVoice Notes Second Brain
Silentpoisen spends a week dictating every stray thought into his phone to build an AI-tagged second brain, and ends up with eleven thousand words, mostly…
The Competent AmateurGarage Organization
No AI tool this time, just Silentpoisen versus his own garage, six aspirational storage bins, and Magpie keeping a running ledger of every "I'll get to that…
The Competent AmateurSolar Backup Plan
Silentpoisen asks AI to help plan a beginner home backup power setup and learns the hard way that a fridge's hidden startup power spike is the one number that…
The Competent AmateurFooty for a Seven-Year-Old
No AI tool this episode, just Silentpoisen trying to explain Australian Rules football to his seven-year-old, and discovering thirty years of watching it…
The Competent AmateurKids Plan Saturday
No AI experiment this time, Silentpoisen hands his seven- and nine-year-old total control of the family's Saturday, and Magpie scores the whole thing like a…
The Competent AmateurAI Compares Home Tech
Silentpoisen asks AI to help him shop for a TV and a router, then catches it giving two opposite, equally confident answers to the same question depending only…
The Competent AmateurCheap Grow Lights
No AI chatbot this week either, just Silentpoisen, two cheap clip-on grow lights, and a coriander plant that dies out of pure spite. A rare hands-only detour…
The Competent AmateurThe Accent Episode (Pawn vs...)
One Australian vowel turns a two-second sentence about a guitar store into an evening that ends with both of them on the kitchen floor, unable to speak. No AI…
The Competent AmateurComputer Cleanup
For once on an AI show, no AI touches the job. Silentpoisen treats his neglected hard drive like a garage nobody's opened in years, and finds a folder called…
The Competent AmateurAI-Only Saturday
Silentpoisen spends an entire Saturday talking to nobody but AI, silent partner and all, to find out what a day with zero human conversation actually does to a…
The Competent AmateurAI Command Center
Silentpoisen tries to build one AI dashboard to run his whole life, calendar, notes, reminders, all of it, and ends up adopting a very needy digital roommate…
The Competent AmateurAI Plans My Weekend
Silentpoisen hands an AI his messy weekend to-do list and gets back a schedule so packed it needs six coffees and zero children to survive. Turns out the fix…
The Competent AmateurTornado Kit AI
Silentpoisen asks an AI to build his family's tornado-alley emergency kit and gets a full checklist back with total, unearned confidence. He spends the episode…
The Competent AmateurSeason 1 Trailer
Silentpoisen and his AI co-host Magpie introduce the format: an AI-run household tested against real life, every week. This trailer previews the season opener…