What if you could advance your career by building an entire application—complete with multiple modes, persistent memory, and personalized intelligence—using nothing but your voice in natural language? No code. No developers. Just words.

Most teams are still treating AI like a search bar: ask a question, get an answer, start over. They're missing the bigger opportunity entirely.

In this episode of The Vibe PM, Pendo Field CPO EMEA Dave Killeen demonstrates how to shift from transactional prompting to building prompt-based applications—sophisticated tools that remember context, ask intelligent questions, and compound value over time.

Dave's example: building a multi-mode AI Career Coach live on the show. This isn't a chatbot, it's a prompt-based application architecture designed in minutes that handles weekly check-in summaries, monthly reflections, promotion readiness assessments, and executive report generation.

The methodology is refreshingly simple: prompt the AI to serve as your personal career coach, asking you the right work value questions, load job-related context once, and consistently return to the same work value conversation throughout the year.

Chapters:

• 00:00 Introduction: Applications built with words, not code
• 02:00 Foundation: Setting up Claude Projects for persistent context
• 02:50 Architecture: Generating the multi-mode mega prompt
• 05:05 Input method: Weekly brain dumps via voice
• 06:00 The flip: When AI starts asking the questions
• 07:05 Live demo: Unstructured thoughts to polished weekly report
• 08:20 The four modes: Beyond basic check-ins
• 09:00 Your blueprint: Three steps to build prompt-based apps
• 10:00 The compounding advantage: Why consistency wins

Tools mentioned:

• Claude Console (prompt generation)
• Claude Projects (persistent context storage)
• Mobile voice mode

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Presented by Pendo

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