How I AI
How I AI, hosted by Claire Vo, is a podcast for anyone wondering how to actually use AI tools to improve the quality and efficiency of their work. Each episode features a guest sharing a specific, practical, and impactful way they've learned to use AI in their work or life. Episodes are 30 minutes long, include live screen sharing, and provide tips, tricks, and workflows that listeners can copy immediately. The podcast aims to demystify AI and help listeners learn the skills needed to thrive in this new world.
Episodes
Sonnet 5 review: I ran 64 generations to find out if it's worth it
I’ve been testing every major frontier model release since the start of the year, and when Anthropic dropped Sonnet 5, I wanted more than a vibe check. I got tired of one-off tests I couldn’t repeat or compare over time, so I built something better: the How I AI Bench, a repeatable eval harness I constructed live using Claude Code while recording this episode. I ran Sonnet 5 blind against four oth
No Figma. No Jira. No docs. How Gusto built a new product line with Claude Code | Eddie Kim (CTO)
Eddie Kim is the co-founder and CTO of the payroll and HR platform Gusto, which just crossed $1 billion in revenue and serves more than 500,000 small businesses. Recently he did something most CTOs don’t: he went back to writing code. With three other engineers and one designer, Eddie built Gusto Cofounder, a net-new AI product, from zero code to a tier-one launch in 10 weeks. He walks through how
GLM 5.2: why I’m replacing Opus in Claude Code with this new model
I put GLM 5.2, the open-weight coding model from Z.AI, through four real tasks inside my actual codebase: a codebase architecture audit, a UI redesign, and a 45-minute autonomous bug-hunting session pulling from Sentry and Vercel logs. Total cost: $3.36 for roughly 6 million tokens, a prioritized bug-fix dashboard I’m actually shipping from, and a landing page redesign that matched Chat PRD’s desi
How Claude Mythos found a 15-year-old bug in Mozilla Firefox | Brian Grinstead
Brian Grinstead is a distinguished engineer at Mozilla, where he’s worked on Firefox and the web platform since 2013 (he joined to help launch Firefox DevTools). Recently he and his team pointed an agentic bug-finding pipeline at Firefox—a codebase with tens of thousands of files and tens of millions of lines of code—and shipped a record month of security fixes. The viral chart everyone saw gave t
How to design AI agent loops: schedules, goals, and subagents in Claude Code and Codex
I break down every loop type from scratch—what a heartbeat, cron, hook, and goal loop actually are, when each one fits, and the five things any effective loop needs before it touches production. Then I build two live loops: a daily aging-PR reviewer in Claude Code that schedules itself at 10:15 a.m. and spins off its own subagents, and a weekly skills-identification loop in Codex that spawns goal-
How Braintrust uses AI agents, evals, and CI to ship better software | Ankur Goyal
In this episode, I sit down with Ankur Goyal, founder and CEO of Braintrust, the AI evals and observability platform used by teams like Notion, Stripe, Vercel, and Zapier. This one is for the senior engineers, staff engineers, VPs of engineering, and CTOs in my audience. We get into how coding agents can take on deeply technical architecture and infrastructure work that no single human engineer co
Claude Fable 5 review: what the new Mythos model gets right (and very wrong)
Claude Fable 5 is the first Mythos-class intelligence model to be generally available, and I got early access to test it before launch. In this episode, I walk through what Anthropic is promising, what actually stood out when I used it on real work, and where I think it fits in your AI stack.—In this episode, we cover:(00:00) Introduction: Fable 5 is finally here(00:31) What Anthropic says about t
Shopping with Claude: How to find quality brands, automate returns, and buy things that last 100 years | Nicole Ruiz
Nicole Ruiz is a writer and parent who has built a comprehensive AI-powered shopping system to help her family buy high-quality, long-lasting items while avoiding the noise of drop-shipping brands, paid ads, and poorly made products. She writes an interview series on Substack about how technology is changing the household.What you’ll learn:How to build a Claude Project with custom instructions for
Gemini Omni: Clone yourself with AI in under 15 minutes
In this experimental episode, I document my real-time attempt to create an AI avatar of myself using Google Flow and the new Gemini Omni video generation model. I walk through the entire process—from scanning my face with my phone to generating a complete one-minute hype video for the podcast, all in about 15 minutes.What you’ll learn:How to create an AI avatar using Google Flow in under five minu
Building an iPhone app with zero technical skills | Bryce Rattner Keithley
Bryce Rattner Keithley has spent her career in talent and recruiting, working with technical leaders but never writing a line of code herself. Yet she managed to build Daily Hundred—a fitness app featuring custom AI-generated videos of anthropomorphic animals demonstrating exercises—and ship it to the App Store before her software engineer friends. Using Replit, Claude, Gemini, and a relentless be
Claude Opus 4.8 is here. Is it as good as they say?
I got a few hours of early-access testing with Anthropic’s newly released model Opus 4.8. I walk through real coding, design, and strategy tasks across Claude Code and Claude Cowork, and give you my unfiltered view on what impressed me and what didn’t.—What you’ll learn:Where Opus 4.8 excels: greenfield prototypes, one-shot features, and fast executionWhere it struggles: the last 10%, edge cases i
The Codex feature that works while you sleep
In this 30-minute episode, I walk through my favorite feature in Codex: the /goal command. I show how Goals transform AI from a turn-based assistant that needs constant ‘what’s next?’ prompting into an autonomous agent that can work for hours on complex, multi-step tasks. I share three real examples: eliminating thousands of Sentry errors, cleaning 3,900 emails down to 68, and organizing hundreds
How the engineer behind Claude Cowork actually uses Claude | Felix Rieseberg (Anthropic)
Felix Rieseberg is the engineering lead for Claude Cowork and Claude Code Desktop at Anthropic. He previously spent five years at Slack building developer tools. In this episode, Felix demonstrates how he uses Claude to solve real-life problems: analyzing floor plans to build interactive 3D house walkthroughs, automatically tracking promises he makes on Twitter, and building a $20 hardware device
What launched at Google I/O 2026 (30-minute day 1 recap)
Today is day one of Google I/O 2026, and I walk through every major announcement live—from the new Gemini 3.5 model family to Anti-Gravity 2.0, Google AI Studio, Gemini’s consumer redesign, the Omni video model, Flow, Stitch, and Pomelli. I test them in real time and tell you exactly which ones delivered.What you’ll learn:How Gemini 3.5 Flash benchmarks against Claude and GPT models on speed and a
HTML is the new Markdown: How Anthropic engineers are building with Claude Code | Thariq Shihipar
Thariq Shihipar is an engineer at Anthropic working on the Claude Code team. He’s spent the past several months experimenting with HTML as a replacement for Markdown in planning and implementation workflows, discovering that richer visual formats lead to better human engagement—and, ultimately, better products. In this episode, filmed at Anthropic’s Code with Claude event in San Francisco, Thariq
Spec-driven development: The AI engineering workflow at Notion | Ryan Nystrom
Ryan Nystrom is a software engineer at Notion. He joined in December 2024 after Notion acquired Campsite, the team communication platform he co-founded with Brian Lovin. At Notion, he’s been a core builder of Notion AI and the Custom Agents feature launched in February 2026. He manages a team of six to seven engineers while still writing code himself, currently running Project Afterburner, a push
Code with Claude: The 5 biggest updates explained
Claire breaks down the biggest announcements from Anthropic’s “Code with Claude” event and what they actually mean for builders shipping AI products today. From scheduled AI routines to outcome-based agents, multi-agent orchestration, and new memory systems, Claire walks through the features she’s most excited to use immediately—and how they could reshape the future of agentic software.What you’ll
Quests, token leaderboards, and a skills marketplace: The elite AI adoption playbook | John Kim (Sendbird)
John Kim is the co-founder and CEO of Delight.ai, a customer experience platform that’s transforming how companies deploy AI. But what makes John’s story fascinating isn’t just his product; it’s how he’s turned his entire company into an AI-native organization. His marketing team built a fully functional e-commerce swag store with Stripe integration in days. His sales team built their own CRM tool
The internal AI tool that’s transforming how Stripe designs products | Owen Williams
Owen Williams is a design manager at Stripe who built Protodash, an internal AI-powered prototyping platform that lets designers and PMs create high-quality Stripe dashboard prototypes without writing code. What started as a bundle of Cursor rules and React components evolved into a full web-based prototyping studio that runs in dev boxes, complete with design review modes, variant testing, and AI
From a $6.90 newsletter to $3M API: How a non-coder built Memelord | Jason Levin
Jason Levin is the CEO and founder of Memelord, an AI-powered meme creation platform that helps brands and individuals create contextual, trending memes. He started Memelord as a $6.90-per-month newsletter sending subscribers to a Google Slides deck, grew it to $100K ARR on Bubble without hiring engineers, then raised $3M to build it into an API-first product.What you’ll learn:How Jason grew Memel
GPT 5.5 just did what no other model could
In this mini episode, I break down OpenAI’s new GPT 5.5 and GPT 5.5 Pro after weeks of early testing. I walk through three real jobs I threw at the model: building an app for me to teach my second grader more advanced subtraction concepts, tackling a tech debt problem in the ChatPRD codebase, and hacking into a proprietary Bluetooth pixel display that every other model had failed me on. My verdic
What Claude Design is actually good for (and why Figma isn’t dead, yet)
In this mini episode, I do a full walkthrough of the AI design tools that dropped in April 2026: Anthropic’s new Claude Design, OpenAI’s GPT Images 2.0, and Google Labs’ open-source DESIGN.md format. I import a full design system from Lenny’s Newsletter, build a landing page, turn my own article into a polished deck, generate a brand kit for ChatPRD, and run a personal color analysis from a photo.
How Intercom 2x’d their engineering velocity in 9 months with Claude Code | Brian Scanlan
Brian Scanlan is a senior principal engineer at Intercom, where he’s led the company’s transformation to AI-first engineering. In just nine months, Intercom doubled their R&D throughput while maintaining code quality, with 100% of engineers—plus designers, PMs, and TPMs—now shipping code via Claude Code.What you’ll learn:How Intercom doubled their merged PRs per R&D employee in just nine m
Claude Cowork 101: How to automate your workday without touching code | JJ Englert (Tenex)
JJ Englert leads community enablement at Tenex. In this episode, JJ provides a complete zero-to-one tutorial on Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s desktop tool that sits between simple chat and full terminal-based coding.What you’ll learn:How to create your first Claude Cowork project by connecting a folder on your computer and building context over timeThe “brain” file strategy: how to create a preferenc
I built a custom Slack inbox. It was easier than you’d think. | Yash Tekriwal (Clay)
Yash Tekriwal is the head of education at Clay. A self-described hyper-optimizer, Yash has built multiple custom productivity applications using Perplexity Computer and OpenClaw to manage his overwhelming daily workflow—including a Slack digest system that categorizes over 150 daily notifications into actionable priorities, and a consolidated news/email/Slack dashboard that serves as his personal
I gave Claude Code our entire codebase. Our customers noticed. | Al Chen (Galileo)
Al Chen is a field engineer at Galileo, an observability platform for AI applications, where he works on the front lines with enterprise customers asking highly technical questions. Despite never having held an engineering role, Al has built a system using Claude Code to query Galileo’s 15 separate repositories, combine that with Confluence documentation and customer-specific quirks, and deliver h
How to turn Claude Code into your personal life operating system | Hilary Gridley
Hilary Gridley is an entrepreneur, former product leader, and new mom who previously appeared on the podcast discussing AI for managers. She returns to share how she's transformed her approach to personal productivity using Claude Code as her primary tool for managing both professional work and life admin. Hilary demonstrates her "anti-system system"—a philosophy that prioritizes sim
How Stripe built “minions”—AI coding agents that ship 1,300 PRs weekly from Slack reactions | Steve Kaliski (Stripe engineer)
Steve Kaliski is a software engineer at Stripe who has spent the past six and a half years building developer tools and payment infrastructure. He’s part of the team that created “minions”—Stripe’s internal AI coding agents, which now ship approximately 1,300 pull requests per week with minimal human intervention beyond code review. In this episode, Steve demonstrates how Stripe engineers activate
How Microsoft's AI VP automates everything with Warp | Marco Casalaina
Marco Casalaina, VP of Core AI Products and AI Futurist at Microsoft, demonstrates how he uses AI tools to automate administrative tasks that typically consume valuable time. Rather than using Warp as a coding assistant (its primary marketed purpose), Marco leverages it to manage Azure resources, scan documents, compress videos, and more. He shows how these “micro-agents” can reduce friction in ev
From journalist to iOS developer: How LinkedIn’s editor builds with Claude Code | Daniel Roth
Daniel Roth, editor in chief at LinkedIn, went from business writer to iOS app developer, without ever learning how to code. Using Claude Code, Daniel built and shipped multiple production-ready iOS apps to the App Store, including Commutely, a personalized train-tracking app for New York commuters.What you’ll learn:How to set up a dual-agent Claude Code system (builder + reviewer)Why being a “pic
From Figma to Claude Code and back | Gui Seiz & Alex Kern (Figma)
Most teams are still passing static design files back and forth, and most Figma files are already out of date by the time they reach engineering. Gui Seiz (designer) and Alex Kern (engineer) from Figma walk through the exact workflow their team uses to bridge that gap with AI, live onscreen. They demo how to pull a running web app directly into Figma using the Figma MCP, edit it collaboratively, a
Mastering Midjourney: How to create consistent, beautiful brand imagery without complex prompts | Jamey Gannon
Jamey Gannon is an AI creative director who specializes in creating consistent, beautiful brand imagery using AI tools. In this episode, Jamey demonstrates her streamlined workflow for generating cohesive brand assets using Midjourney, Nano Banana, and other AI image tools. She walks through her process of creating mood boards, using style references, developing personalization codes, and strategi
How Coinbase scaled AI to 1,000+ engineers | Chintan Turakhia
Chintan Turakhia is Senior Director of Engineering at Coinbase, where he’s led the transformation of a 1,000-plus-engineer organization to embrace AI tools at scale. When tasked with rewriting Coinbase’s self-custody wallet into a consumer social app in just six to nine months, Chintan turned to AI as a force multiplier. His team has achieved remarkable efficiency gains, including reducing PR revi
5 OpenClaw agents run my home, finances, and code | Jesse Genet
Jesse Genet is a homeschooling parent and entrepreneur who runs her household with five specialized OpenClaw agents. She layers them on top of her Obsidian “second brain,” deploys each on its own Mac Mini, and assigns every agent a distinct role—homeschool, finance, scheduling, development, and operations—so each one operates with clear scope and responsibility.What you’ll learn:How Jesse set up f
“I haven’t written a single line of front-end code in 3 months”: How Notion’s design team uses Claude Code to prototype
Brian Lovin is a designer at Notion AI who has transformed how the design team builds prototypes, by creating a shared code environment powered by Claude Code. Instead of designers working in isolated repositories or limited to static Figma designs, Brian built a collaborative “prototype playground” where the entire team can create, share, and iterate on functional prototypes. In this episode, Bri
How this visually impaired engineer uses Claude Code to make his life more accessible | Joe McCormick
Joe McCormick is a principal software engineer at Babylist who lost most of his central vision due to a rare genetic disorder right before starting college. He pivoted from mechanical engineering to computer science and now leads AI enablement at Babylist. Joe demonstrates how he uses AI to build micro Chrome extensions that make his everyday work and life more accessible, showing how personal sof
Claude Opus 4.6 vs. GPT-5.3 Codex: How I shipped 93,000 lines of code in 5 days
I put the newest AI coding models from OpenAI and Anthropic head-to-head, testing them on real engineering work I’m actually doing. I compare GPT-5.3 Codex with Opus 4.6 (and Opus 4.6 Fast) by asking them to redesign my marketing website and refactor some genuinely gnarly components. Through side-by-side experiments, I break down where each model shines—creative development versus code review—and
How to build your own AI developer tools with Claude Code | CJ Hess (Tenex)
CJ Hess is a software engineer at Tenex who has built some of the most useful tools and workflows for being a “real AI engineer.” In this episode, CJ demonstrates his custom-built tool, Flowy, that transforms Claude’s ASCII diagrams into interactive visual mockups and flowcharts. He also shares his process for using model-to-model comparison to ensure that his AI-generated code is high-quality, an
Guillermo Rauch: Vercel CEO on how v0 hit 3,200 PRs merged per day (and lets anyone ship)
Guillermo Rauch, the CEO of Vercel, demonstrates how v0 has evolved from a simple prototyping tool to a complete development environment that supports the entire Git workflow. Guillermo shows how Vercel built skills.sh—a viral marketplace with over 34,000 community-submitted skills—using v0, and how the tool enables non-technical team members to contribute production-ready code changes. He walks t
How this PM uses MCPs to automate his meeting prep, CRM updates, and customer feedback synthesis | Reid Robinson (Zapier)
Reid Robinson, Principal AI Product Strategist at Zapier, shares how he uses Model Context Protocols (MCPs) to automate tedious tasks and create powerful workflows. He demonstrates practical workflows that combine Zapier’s more than 8,000 app connections with AI tools like Claude to create systems that work while he sleeps.What you’ll learn:How to use Zapier’s MCP server to create custom collectio
I gave Clawdbot (aka Moltbot) access to my computer, calendar, and emails: Here’s what happened
In this episode, I take you through my unfiltered experience with Clawdbot, the viral open-source AI agent that’s been taking over tech Twitter. (In the time since this was recorded, the tool was renamed Moltbot, but we’re calling it Clawdbot here to match the episode.) It’s an autonomous AI that can run code, spin up sub-agents, join video calls, and take real actions on your machine. I invite it
Advanced Claude Code techniques: context loading, mermaid diagrams, stop hooks, and more | John Lindquist
John Lindquist is the co-founder of egghead.io and an expert in leveraging AI tools for professional software development. In this episode, John shares advanced techniques for using AI coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor that go far beyond basic prompting. He demonstrates how senior engineers can use mermaid diagrams for context loading, create custom hooks for automated code quality checks,
Claude Code for product managers: research, writing, context libraries, custom to-do system, and more | Teresa Torres
Teresa Torres is the author of Continuous Discovery Habits and an internationally acclaimed speaker and coach. In this episode, Teresa demonstrates how she’s built a personalized productivity system using Claude Code to manage her tasks, automate research collection, and improve her writing. She shows how non-developers can leverage AI tools to create personalized workflows that match their unique
The power user’s guide to Codex: parallelizing workflows, planning techniques, advanced context engineering tips, automating code reviews, and more | Alexander Embiricos
Alexander Embiricos, the product lead for Codex at OpenAI, shares practical workflows for getting the most out of this AI coding agent. In this episode, he demonstrates how both non-technical users and experienced engineers can leverage Codex to accelerate development, from making simple code changes to building production-ready applications. Alex walks through real examples of using Codex in VS C
Zapier’s CEO shares his personal AI stack | Wade Foster
Wade Foster is the co-founder and CEO of Zapier. In this episode, Wade shows how he uses meeting transcripts, Zapier agents, and even Grok to analyze company culture, evaluate interview candidates, and source talent from unexpected places. He explains why CEOs need to lead by example when it comes to AI adoption and shares practical workflows that any executive can implement to make hiring more ef
How Webflow’s CPO built an AI chief of staff to manage her calendar, prep for meetings, and drive AI adoption | Rachel Wolan
Rachel Wolan, the chief product officer at Webflow, has embraced AI not just as a product leader but as a hands-on builder. A coder since age 16, Rachel has returned to her technical roots by creating a custom AI chief-of-staff application that helps manage her executive workload. In this episode, she demonstrates how she uses personal AI software to prep for meetings, triage her calendar, manage
How to get your whole team excited about AI (and actually using it) | Brian Greenbaum (product designer at Pendo)
Brian Greenbaum is a Senior Staff Product Designer at Pendo who led a company-wide AI transformation after a personal epiphany while on paternity leave. After experiencing the power of AI coding tools firsthand, he created a structured approach to help his entire product organization adopt AI. In this episode, Brian shares his complete playbook for driving AI adoption across teams, measuring succe
How Zapier’s EA built an army of AI interns to automate meeting prep, strengthen team culture, and scale internal alignment | Cortney Hickey
Cortney Hickey is the executive assistant to the CEO at Zapier, where she’s leveraging AI to transform traditional EA responsibilities into scalable, organization-wide systems. In this episode, she demonstrates how she’s built AI workflows that automate meeting preparation, reinforce company culture through automated feedback, and democratize strategic knowledge across the organization. Her approa
ChatGPT agent mode: The “little helper” that transformed recruiting, crafted user personas, and solved parking nightmares | Michal Peled (Honeybook)
Michal Peled is a Technical Operations Engineer at HoneyBook who specializes in building internal tools and automations that eliminate friction for teams. In this episode, Michal demonstrates three practical AI use cases: using ChatGPT’s agent mode to automate LinkedIn recruiting, transforming customer research into interactive AI personas, and creating a custom calendar solution for a very San Fr
Gemini 3 vs. Claude Opus 4.5 vs. GPT-5.1 Codex: Which AI model is the best designer?
I put three cutting-edge AI models to the test in a head-to-head design competition. Using the exact same prompt, I challenged Google’s Gemini 3, Anthropic’s Opus 4.5, and OpenAI’s Codex 5.1 to redesign my blog page, evaluating them on visual design quality, user experience improvements, and SEO optimization capabilities. One model produced a beautiful, polished, production-ready redesign. One was
“PMs who use AI will replace those who don’t”: Google’s AI product lead on the new PM toolkit | Marily Nika
Marily Nika, AI Product Lead at Google and founder of the AI Product Academy, demonstrates how product managers can leverage AI tools to dramatically accelerate their workflow. Using a smart-fridge concept as an example, Marily walks us through the exact workflow she uses to build products faster: doing user research with Reddit debates, generating PRDs with custom GPTs, prototyping with v0, and e
How to create your own AI performance coach: Optimizing your unique nutrition, recovery, and injury management needs | Lucas Werthein (Cactus)
Lucas Werthein, the COO and co-founder of Cactus, shares how he built a personalized AI wellness coach using ChatGPT to optimize his athletic performance while managing past injuries. After multiple surgeries on his knees, shoulder, and foot, Lucas created a system that synthesizes data from medical imaging, blood tests, wearable devices, and nutrition plans to provide personalized recommendations
“Farm-to-table software”: How I built a Thanksgiving party hub using Lovable for managing invites, dishes, shared recipes, and photos
In today’s pre-Thanksgiving episode, I walk you through how I vibe coded my very own “Thanksgiving party hub” using Lovable—and how I transformed it from AI-generated slop into something warm, personal, and genuinely useful. I show you exactly how I upleveled the typography, visuals, and structure using Google Fonts and Midjourney style references, and then I share one of my favorite real-life AI
“Nobody wanted to do this work”: How Emmy Award–winning filmmakers use AI to automate the tedious parts of documentaries
Tim McAleer is a producer at Ken Burns’s Florentine Films who is responsible for the technology and processes that power their documentary production. Rather than using AI to generate creative content, Tim has built custom AI-powered tools that automate the most tedious parts of documentary filmmaking: organizing and extracting metadata from tens of thousands of archival images, videos, and audio
How this CEO turned 25,000 hours of sales calls into a self-learning go-to-market engine | Matt Britton (Suzy)
Matt Britton is the founder and CEO of Suzy, a consumer insights platform that has raised over $100 million in venture capital and works with top brands like Coca-Cola, Google, Procter & Gamble, and Nike. Matt is also the bestselling author of YouthNation, a blueprint for understanding the seismic shifts shaping our future economy, and Generation AI, which explores how Gen Alpha and artificial
The complete beginner’s guide to coding with AI: from PRD to generating your very first lines of code
This episode is for complete beginners. I walk you through how to build your very first coding project using AI tools—even if you’ve never written a line of code. Together, we’ll create a personal project hub that automatically generates documentation and lets you build interactive prototypes. I’ll show you the process step by step—from setting up a repository, to creating AI agents that help with
“Vibe analysis”: How Faire’s data team uses AI to investigate conversion drops, analyze experiment results, and convert raw data into executive-ready insights
Tim Trueman and Alexa Cerf from Faire’s data team demonstrate how AI tools are revolutionizing data analysis workflows. They show how data teams, product managers, and engineers can use tools like Cursor, ChatGPT, and custom agents to investigate business metrics, analyze experiment results, and extract insights from user surveys—all while dramatically reducing the time and technical expertise req
Vibe-coding a kid-friendly AI fortune teller for your Halloween festivities | Marco Casalaina (Microsoft VP)
In this impromptu Halloween special, Marco Casalaina (VP of Products for Core AI at Microsoft) demonstrates how he uses GitHub Spark to quickly build a mobile app that generates kid-friendly fortunes for trick-or-treaters.—Where to find Marco Casalaina:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcocasalaina/X: https://x.com/amrcn_werewolf?lang=en—Where to find Claire Vo:ChatPRD: https://www.chatprd.a
“Cursor is a much better product manager than I ever was”: How this PM uses AI for PRDs, Jira tickets, and replying to coworkers | Dennis Yang (Chime)
Dennis Yang is the Principal Product Manager for Generative AI at Chime, where he’s pioneered AI workflows that meaningfully increase productivity. While most people use Cursor as a coding tool, Dennis has turned it into a comprehensive product-management system that automates PRD creation, documentation management, ticket creation, status reporting, and even comment responses—without writing code
Claude Skills explained: How to create reusable AI workflows
Today I dive into Anthropic’s latest feature that lets anyone create reusable workflows for Claude—no coding required. I break down exactly what Claude Skills are, how to build them from scratch, and how to use them inside Claude Code and Cursor to automate recurring AI tasks like generating PRDs, writing changelog summaries, and turning demo notes into follow-up emails.What you’ll learn:What Clau
How this Yelp AI PM works backward from “golden conversations” to create high-quality prototypes using Claude Artifacts and Magic Patterns | Priya Badger
Priya Badger, a product manager at Yelp, shares her innovative approach to designing AI-powered products by starting with example conversations rather than traditional wireframes or PRDs. In this episode, she demonstrates how she uses Claude and Magic Patterns to prototype Yelp’s AI assistant features—from exploring conversation flows to designing user interfaces. What you’ll learn:1. How to use e
Evals, error analysis, and better prompts: A systematic approach to improving your AI products | Hamel Husain (ML engineer)
Hamel Husain, an AI consultant and educator, shares his systematic approach to improving AI product quality through error analysis, evaluation frameworks, and prompt engineering. In this episode, he demonstrates how product teams can move beyond “vibe checking” their AI systems to implement data-driven quality improvement processes that identify and fix the most common errors. Using real examples
“I’m incapable of doing my job without AI”: How this top PM uses Claude + ChatGPT as his second brain
Amir Klein is a product manager at Monday.com, leading their AI agents initiative. Despite taking two months of paternity leave, he ranked #4 out of 90 PMs in AI tool usage at his company. In this episode, Amir reveals how he’s become “highly dependent and maybe incapable” of doing his job without AI, showing his custom GPT workflows that help him manage context switching, analyze customer feedbac
The secret to better AI prototypes: Why Tinder’s CPO starts with JSON, not design | Ravi Mehta (product advisor, previously EIR at Reforge)
Ravi Mehta, now a product advisor, has built and scaled products used by millions. His past roles include Chief Product Officer at Tinder, Entrepreneur in Residence at Reforge, and senior product leadership positions at Facebook, TripAdvisor, and Xbox. In this episode, Ravi demonstrates his data-driven approach to AI prototyping that produces dramatically better results than traditional "vibe
The beginner's guide to coding with Cursor | Lee Robinson (Head of AI education)
Lee Robinson is the head of AI education at Cursor, where he teaches people how to build software with AI. Previously, he helped build Vercel and Next.js as an early employee. In this episode, he demonstrates how Cursor's AI-powered code editor bridges the gap between beginners and experienced developers through automated error fixing, parallel task execution, and writing assistance. Lee walks
How I built an Apple Watch workout app using Cursor and Xcode (with zero mobile-app experience)
Terry Lin is a product manager and developer who built Cooper’s Corner, an AI-powered fitness tracking app that works across iPhone and Apple Watch. Frustrated with traditional fitness apps that require extensive setup and manual logging, Terry created a solution that lets users simply speak their exercises, weights, and reps. The app automatically structures this data and provides analytics on wo
How Devin replaces your junior engineers with infinite AI interns that never sleep | Scott Wu (Cognition CEO)
Scott Wu is the co-founder and CEO of Cognition Labs, the creators of Devin, an AI agent designed to function as a junior engineer on software development teams. In this conversation, Scott demonstrates how his team uses their own product to accelerate development workflows, reduce engineering toil, and handle routine tasks asynchronously. Scott walks us through real examples of how Devin integrat
How to turn meeting notes into prototypes that your sales team can immediately demo to customers | Anjan Panneer Selvam (Acolyte Health)
Anjan Panneer Selvam is the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Acolyte Health, where he’s pioneering the use of AI across the entire product development lifecycle. In this episode, he demonstrates how AI tools can dramatically accelerate alignment between stakeholders, reduce development time from months to minutes, and enable teams to validate ideas with customers before committing engineeri
How to digest 36 weekly podcasts without spending 36 hours listening | Tomasz Tunguz (Theory Ventures)
Tomasz Tunguz is the founder of Theory Ventures, which invests in early-stage enterprise AI, data, and blockchain companies. In this episode, Tomasz reveals his custom-built “Parakeet Podcast Processor,” which helps him extract value from 36 podcasts weekly without spending 36 hours listening. He walks through his terminal-based workflow that downloads, transcribes, and summarizes podcast content,
Using Veo 3 to create AI-generated music videos, like a Tiny Desk Concert with Notorious B.I.G. and Kurt Cobain
Anish Acharya is an entrepreneur and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, focusing on consumer investing and AI-native products. In this episode, he demonstrates how AI can be used for creative and personal projects beyond typical work applications. He walks through creating an AI-generated Tiny Desk Concert for Notorious B.I.G. and Kurt Cobain, building a book cataloging app using video analys
How Amplitude built an internal AI tool that the whole company’s obsessed with (and how you can too) | Wade Chambers
Wade Chambers, Chief Engineering Officer at Amplitude, shares how his team built Moda—an internal AI tool that gives employees access to enterprise data across multiple systems, enabling faster product development and decision-making while fostering cross-functional collaboration.What you’ll learn:1. How Amplitude built a powerful internal AI tool in just 3 to 4 weeks of engineers’ spare time2. A
An exclusive inside look at GPT-5
In this episode, I share my hands-on experience with OpenAI’s GPT-5, the company’s new frontier model. As one of the first users outside of OpenAI to test the model, I put GPT-5 head-to-head with GPT-4.1 across real-world product use cases—from writing PRDs to generating code to assisting with visual design work. This is my unfiltered look at what GPT-5 can (and can’t) do—and how it changes the ga
How a VC and tech founder used AI to launch a brick-and-mortar business in their spare time | Andrew Mason (CEO of Descript) & Nabeel Hyatt (Partner at Spark Capital)
Andrew Mason (founder of Groupon, now CEO of Descript) and Nabeel Hyatt (General Partner at Spark Capital) teamed up to open a physical board-game social club in Berkeley, with AI as their business partner. In this episode, they break down how they used Claude to generate a full business plan, model financials, plan the space layout, navigate Berkeley permitting, categorize hundreds of games using
How Block’s custom AI agent supercharges every team, from sales to data to engineering | Jackie Brosamer & Brad Axen
VP of engineering Jackie Brosamer and principal engineer Brad Axen join me to demo Goose, Block’s open-source AI agent that runs locally, plugs into your existing tools through model context protocol (MCP) servers, and peels away the rote parts of work so people can focus on insight and impact.This episode is packed with in-depth demos: starting with a messy farm-stand sales CSV, Goose analyzes th
Successfully coding with AI in large enterprises: Centralized rules, workflows for tech debt, and training your team | Zach Davis (Director of Engineering at LaunchDarkly)
Zach Davis is a product-minded engineering leader and builder at heart, with over 12 years of experience building high‑performing teams and crafting developer tools at companies like Atlassian and LaunchDarkly. In this episode, he shares how he’s helping his 100-plus-person engineering team successfully adopt AI tools by creating centralized documentation, using agents to tackle technical debt, an
How this PM streamlines 60k-page FDA submissions and saves millions with Claude, Streamlit, and clever AI workflows | Prerna Kaul
Prerna Kaul is a product and platform leader who has spent over 14 years turning machine-learning research into consumer and B2B products at Amazon Alexa, AGI, Moderna, and now Panasonic Well. In today’s episode, she explains how she’s using AI to slash some of the most time-consuming, expensive tasks in life sciences—from generating 60,000-page FDA submissions to crafting communication frameworks
Mastering ChatGPT: Advanced techniques for workplace communication and productivity | Hiten Shah
Hiten Shah is a serial founder who has started several analytics and security companies, including Crazy Egg and KISSmetrics. The latest one, Nira, was acquired by Dropbox in 2024. In this episode, he shares how he turns ChatGPT from a simple chatbot into a personal workplace coach, sales strategist, and productivity multiplier.What you’ll learn:How to create AI versions of your boss by loading op
How to build prototypes that actually look like your product | Colin Matthews (Product leader, AI prototyping instructor at Maven)
Colin Matthews is a product manager, founder, and hobbyist engineer. After spending the past eight years in healthtech, he recently left his role as a PM at Datavant to go full-time on building his own products. He is currently a top Maven instructor, helping PMs build their first AI prototype. In this episode, he shares a step-by-step workflow for creating component libraries from screenshots tha
How a 91-year-old vibe coded a complex event management system using Claude and Replit | John Blackman
John Blackman, a 91-year-old retired electrical engineer, shares how he used Claude and Replit to build a complex application for his church’s community service events—with no prior software development experience and for less than $350. His app allows event organizers to create events, recruit volunteers, and manage sign-ups, with a standout feature for organizing free oil changes for participant
A designer's guide to Cursor: How to build interactive prototypes with sound, explore visual styles, and transform data visualizations | Elizabeth Lin
Elizabeth Lin is an independent design educator who has crafted learning experiences for Khan Academy, Primer, and Lambda School. She currently runs design is a party, an alternative online design school where she teaches courses like The Art of Visual Design and Prototyping with Cursor. In this episode, she shares how designers can leverage Cursor to create interactive prototypes with sound, expl
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