Emailing like a superhuman
from Practical AI Hosted by Daniel Whitenack and Chris Benson
Loïc Houssier, Head of Engineering at Superhuman, joins us to discuss how AI and LLMs are reshaping the email experience. He highlights challenges related to the variability of user prompts and infrastructure optimization. Loïc emphasizes that a deep focus on user experience and real human workflows is key to building AI tools people actually love to use. Featuring: Loïc Houssier – LinkedIn Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X Links: Superhuman Referral Code for a Free month Sponsors: Outshift by Cisco – AGNTCY is an open source collective building the Internet of Agents. It's a collaboration layer where AI agents can communicate, discover each other, and work across frameworks. For developers, this means standardized agent discovery tools, seamless protocols for inter-agent communication, and modular components to compose and scale multi-agent workflows.
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- 0:00 Welcome to Practical AI
- 0:44 Meet our guest
- 4:15 Being the early bird
- 8:10 Tackling differing skill levels
- 12:00 Rethinking email
- 16:37 Sponsor: Cisco
- 17:40 Product development cycle
- 23:23 Most useful email functions
- 25:12 GenAI workload
- 29:56 Lessons learned
- 34:34 The human in the workflow
- 38:29 Vibe-emailing
- 41:49 No longer science fiction
- 46:12 Outro
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