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How I AI

Claire Vo 80 Episodes Sep 16, 2026

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

Muse review: The personal AI agent that gets consumer UX right
Muse review: The personal AI agent that gets consumer UX right Sep 16, 2026 00:37:11 I spent a few hours putting Meta’s Muse, its new personal AI agent, through a real first-pass test: onboarding, calendar management, goal setting, a one-shot family morning newsletter, browser-based shopping, and the animated avatar that honestly surprised me.What you’ll learn:Why Muse is the best-designed personal agent I’ve tested, and what specifically made it feel that wayThe one-shot family P
How Grok Bot designers use AI agents to build personal sites and product prototypes | John Bai & Peng Zheng
How Grok Bot designers use AI agents to build personal sites and product prototypes | John Bai & Peng Zheng Sep 14, 2026 00:41:34 John Bai and Peng Zheng are designers on the Grok Bot team at SpaceXAI, where they’re building one of the most talked-about AI products right now. John writes publicly about his design process (his piece “Designing Grok Bot with Grok Bot” has already made the rounds) and shares bot templates with the design community. Peng brings a product-design sensibility to personal tools, and his website doub
Build your own company brain: the enterprise AI playbook from Stripe’s engineering team | Sharadh Krishnamurthy
Build your own company brain: the enterprise AI playbook from Stripe’s engineering team | Sharadh Krishnamurthy Sep 7, 2026 00:50:24 Sharadh Krishnamurthy is an engineering manager at Stripe, where he helped build Kai, the company’s internal AI agent used by more than 10,000 employees every week. He’s worked across several of Stripe’s core infrastructure teams, including data and developer experience, which gives him a grounded, systems-level perspective on what it actually takes to make AI work at enterprise scale. He’s curren
GPT-6 Astra is a banger - here’s everything I’ve built
GPT-6 Astra is a banger - here’s everything I’ve built Sep 3, 2026 00:32:19 I got early access to GPT-6 Astra: when I say this model broke through tasks I couldn’t crack with 5.6 Sol or Fable, I mean it specifically: the ChatPRD product intelligence feature, building 3D games, the hardware hack, and a handful of one-shot coding projects I’d tried and failed on repeatedly.What you’ll learn:Why Astra’s computer use feels different, and which production tools I’m trusting it
Grok Bot vs. OpenClaw: How I replaced my entire agent stack
Grok Bot vs. OpenClaw: How I replaced my entire agent stack Sep 2, 2026 00:36:20 I’m running about 30 active agents at any given moment, and in this episode I break down my full Grok Bot setup: what it is, how it compares to OpenClaw, and the nine bots I’ve built for work and my personal life. We go deep on Chief (my chief-of-staff bot sweeping six inboxes and multiple Slack workspaces), TradBot (the family agent that prints a kitchen-table newspaper for my kids), two engineer
How I turned Claude into a self-improving PM assistant | Daniel Blum (PM, Melio)
How I turned Claude into a self-improving PM assistant | Daniel Blum (PM, Melio) Aug 31, 2026 00:46:07 Daniel Blum is a product manager at Melio, a B2B payments company, and one of the most systematic thinkers I’ve had on the show when it comes to personal AI infrastructure. He’s spent the past year building a Claude- and Cowork-based productivity system that manages his Notion board, processes his Slack and email, and runs self-improvement loops every week without needing to be prompted. Beyond hi
I spent $20,000 on Devin in a month. Here’s what I learned | Ryan Carson (solo founder)
I spent $20,000 on Devin in a month. Here’s what I learned | Ryan Carson (solo founder) Aug 24, 2026 00:44:13 Ryan Carson is a five-time founder and the current solo founder of Untangle, a B2B SaaS platform for family law firms. Before Untangle, he co-founded Treehouse, an online coding education platform, and has spent the better part of two decades building and leading tech companies. He’s active on X, where he shares his solo founder journey in real time, including what he actually spends on AI tools e
I tested Grok Bot, Grok 4.6, and Cursor Origin - here’s my honest take
I tested Grok Bot, Grok 4.6, and Cursor Origin - here’s my honest take Aug 18, 2026 00:27:14 This week I’m doing a solo breakdown of everything xAI and Cursor have shipped recently, including Grok Bot, Cursor Origin, and the Grok 4.6 model. I set up five Grok Bots, ran Grok 4.6 through my Claire Weighted Index against GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5, and Opus 5, and spent time actually using Origin as a GitHub replacement. Here’s what’s worth your attention, what’s overhyped, and where I’m p
How a solo founder used Codex and ChatGPT to launch a fashion brand without engineers | Yana Welinder
How a solo founder used Codex and ChatGPT to launch a fashion brand without engineers | Yana Welinder Aug 17, 2026 00:32:52 Yana Welinder is the solo founder of Yana Bana, an AI-native fashion brand built with AI as her technical co-founder, starting from hand-drawn sketches and ending with runway photos, CAD files for 3D printing, and a live Stripe-connected pre-order site—no engineers required. A former product leader, she brings an operator’s rigor to her creative process: her “fashion prompt” is a detailed spec cov
Claude Code for normal people: skills, voice mode, and how to collaborate with AI
Claude Code for normal people: skills, voice mode, and how to collaborate with AI Aug 10, 2026 00:43:08 Grace Clarke is an AI educator and former marketing consultant who taught herself Claude Code earlier this year and built a curriculum out of the process. She now runs her entire service business on tools she’s built with Claude, including a pipeline operator, a proposal maker, and a Gmail replacement she created in under 30 minutes, and teaches individuals and teams to do the same.What you’ll lea
Build an AI code review bot in 30 minutes with Vercel Eve
Build an AI code review bot in 30 minutes with Vercel Eve Aug 5, 2026 00:24:13 AI writes most of my code now, and that created a new problem: a PR queue I couldn’t keep up with. In this episode, I walk through how I built Merge Mommy, a Vercel Eve agent that reads every PR after checks pass, scores it across six risk dimensions, auto-approves the low-risk ones, and pings me in Slack for anything that needs a human. I built the whole thing in one Codex session, it’s SOC 2 com
ChatGPT Codex Voice + browser + Sites: an expert’s AI workflow | Nick Baumann (OpenAI)
ChatGPT Codex Voice + browser + Sites: an expert’s AI workflow | Nick Baumann (OpenAI) Aug 3, 2026 00:41:34 Nick Baumann is on the Developer Experience team at OpenAI, where he spends his days building with, testing, and communicating the capabilities of ChatGPT Codex and ChatGPT Work. In this episode, Nick walks me through several features that have launched or evolved recently: the new voice interface with its screen-reading orb, the Heartbeats automation system in ChatGPT Work on mobile, the live Cha

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