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How I AI
by welly cnova
How I AI, hosted by Claire Vo, is for anyone wondering how to actually use these magical new tools to improve the quality and efficiency of their work. In each episode, guests will share a specific, practical, and impactful way they’ve learned to use AI in their work or life. Expect 30-minute episodes, live screen sharing, and tips/tricks/workflows you can copy immediately. If you want to demystify AI and learn the skills you need to thrive in this new world, this podcast is for you.
Episodes
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Claude Duet is beautiful. I still forgot to use it
Anthropic's new personal agent, Claude Duet, lives on your phone, inherits all your Claude plugins and connectors, and is pitched at small business owners and busy professionals. It's the most polished agent launch I've seen: thoughtful onboarding, task lists, first-class artifacts, and…
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“Claude cuts my TikTok”: How this creator is scaling video with AI | Brooke Lacey
Brooke Lacey has been making videos since before Facebook had video, and she built a TikTok audience of more than 290,000 by learning to cut short-form videos herself. With over 25 years in tech, she now builds her own apps, including Zosha, a free mobile app for learning AI. In this episode,...
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Welcome to Tech Trends Uncovered
Welcome to Tech Trends Uncovered! We're excited to have you here as we explore the fascinating world of technology together. From the latest gadgets and artificial intelligence to exciting innovations that could change the way we live, work, and communicate, there's always something new to...
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Meta’s new ‘Muse Wonder’ model: good for AI agents, bad for design
I put Meta’s new Muse Wonder (and Wonder Full) frontier models through the How I AI bench, which covers nearly 20 tasks across prototyping, agentic workflows, coding, writing, and creative work. I scored everything with an LLM-as-a-judge pass and my own voice notes, then pulled together the...
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How Meta designed Muse: an AI agent people actually want to talk to | Alex Cornell (Design Director)
Alex Cornell is a design director at Meta, where he leads design on Muse, Meta’s consumer AI agent. He came to the role with a long background in software product design, including time as a founder, and has spent the past year building one of the most thoughtful agent interfaces in the consumer…
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How OpenAI uses ChatGPT Sites (live at DevDay!) | Kath Korevec (Product Lead)
Kath Korevec is a member of the Product staff at OpenAI working on Codex, and she spent over a year building and using ChatGPT Sites internally before its public launch. She’s been on the front lines of shipping Plugin Insights, MCP plugin hosting, and the connector ecosystem, which now includes...
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Jev: 8 real use cases for the fastest, cheapest model I’ve ever used | John Lindquist
John Lindquist created egghead.io, a developer education platform used by hundreds of thousands of working engineers. These days he’s building mega.dev, a hands-on program specifically for developers who want to do real work with AI agents, not just prototype them. What you’ll learn: Why Jev is a...
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OpenAI Dev Day 2026: The releases that actually matter
I spent the day at OpenAI’s DevDay in San Francisco, and I have good news and bad news: OpenAI released a lot of stuff. In this episode, I break down the announcements worth paying attention to - and show you what happened when I tested some of them early. We’ll meet my Dot, explore why Spaces…
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Jev for beginners: how to use it and what to build
Jev is TypeSafe AI’s new decision model. It returns type-safe structured values (a choice, a score, a probability) instead of generated text, at 4 cents per million input tokens with no output charge. This week I ran it on five real projects: PR categorization, a meta-analysis of my own Claude…
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Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6 Sol: which model won my blind taste test?
I got up early to record an Opus 5.5 review. Then Anthropic and OpenAI dropped new models on the same morning, and I decided to do something I’d never done before: take the How I AI bench live. I put GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6 Sol, Claude Opus 5.5, and more through the work I actually care about: emails,...
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I left Claude for months. Opus 5.5 is why I'm back
I’ve been off Claude for months. Not because it got dumb, but because it got annoying. The rambling, the hedging, the preachy little disclaimers on tasks that didn’t need them. I moved most of my daily work to Codex and I didn’t miss it. Then Anthropic shipped Opus 5.5: 40% cheaper than Opus 5,...
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How Warp ships 2,000 PRs a month with AI factories | Zach Lloyd (CEO, Warp)
Zach Lloyd is the co-founder and CEO of Warp, an AI-powered terminal and software factory platform used by tens of thousands of engineers. Before Warp, he spent nearly a decade at Google, including time as a principal engineer on Google Sheets. He built Warp from the ground up as a modern,...
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Muse review: The personal AI agent that gets consumer UX right
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...
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How Grok Bot designers use AI agents to build personal sites and product prototypes | John Bai & Peng Zheng
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...
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Build your own company brain: the enterprise AI playbook from Stripe’s engineering team | Sharadh Krishnamurthy
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…
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GPT-6 Astra is a banger - here’s everything I’ve built
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…
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Grok Bot vs. OpenClaw: How I replaced my entire agent stack
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...
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How I turned Claude into a self-improving PM assistant | Daniel Blum (PM, Melio)
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…
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I spent $20,000 on Devin in a month. Here’s what I learned | Ryan Carson (solo founder)
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,...
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I tested Grok Bot, Grok 4.6, and Cursor Origin - here’s my honest take
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…
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How a solo founder used Codex and ChatGPT to launch a fashion brand without engineers | Yana Welinder
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...
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Claude Code for normal people: skills, voice mode, and how to collaborate with AI
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...
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Build an AI code review bot in 30 minutes with Vercel Eve
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...
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ChatGPT Codex Voice + browser + Sites: an expert’s AI workflow | Nick Baumann (OpenAI)
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…
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From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun
Maddie Reese is a vibe coder, hardware tinkerer, and builder. She builds things at the intersection of software and hardware, including a thermal receipt printer that people around the world can message directly, a fully functional Twitter pager running on a Raspberry Pi, and a personal API that...
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Claude Opus 5 review: this model is brilliant (but annoying)
I’m tired of new models. Every week there’s a new benchmark, a new frontier intelligence claim, a new thing to test. But here we are, because Opus 5 just dropped and I’ve had real hands-on time with it, so you’re getting the honest version. This is my full Opus 5 review: personality analysis…
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Computer & browser use in Codex (5 real examples)
Today I’m walking you through one of my absolute favorite AI features right now: browser and computer use via Codex (the ChatGPT desktop app). I use this every single day, personally and professionally, and I wanted to share the specific workflows I’ve built, the moments that surprised me, and…
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How the founder of Morning Brew built a Claude content machine that never runs out of ideas and never sounds like slop | Alex Lieberman
Alex Lieberman co-founded Morning Brew in college and grew it into one of the most-read business newsletters in the world before selling it to Business Insider. Now he’s the co-founder and co-managing partner of Tenex. In this episode, Alex explains why distribution is becoming a durable moat…
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This solo builder runs 24/7 local AI on his own hardware | Alex Finn
Alex Finn is an AI builder, YouTuber, and the creator of Vibe Code Academy, a community for people learning to build with AI tools. He runs one of the most ambitious local AI setups I’ve come across: three Mac Studio 512 GB machines, a DGX Spark, and a custom RTX 5090 build, all coordinated…
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GPT-5.6 Sol vs. Claude Fable: Why OpenAI’s new model crushes my benchmark
GPT-5.6 Sol is back, and I ran it through my full How I AI vibe benchmark against GPT-5.6 Terra, Luna, Claude Fable 5, and Sonnet 5 across five categories: PRDs, prototypes, wireframes, debugging, and agentic voice. Sol won by a meaningful margin on my Claire Weighted Index (70% my taste, 30%...
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What a harness is and how to build one with Claude Agent SDK
Everybody is saying, “It’s not the model, it’s the harness,” but almost nobody stops to explain what a harness actually is. So I did. I built one live on the show: a Sentry bug-debugging harness for my company ChatPRD, using the Claude Agent SDK, a custom terminal UI built with the Ink library…
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How I run autonomous coding agents from my phone with OpenAI Symphony + Linear | Alessio Fanelli (Kernel Labs)
Alessio Fanelli, founder of Kernel Labs and co-host of Latent Space podcast, walks us through two very different AI workflows: (1) a fully autonomous coding setup using OpenAI Symphony + Linear, where Linear acts as a state machine and Symphony manages agents through the whole dev lifecycle with...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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…
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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:...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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…
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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...
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How I AI, hosted by Claire Vo, is for anyone wondering how to actually use these magical new tools to improve the quality and efficiency of their work. In each episode, guests will share a specific, practical, and impactful way they’ve learned to use AI in their work or life. Expect 30-minute episodes, live screen sharing, and tips/tricks/workflows you can copy immediately. If you want to demystify AI and learn the skills you need to thrive in this new world, this podcast is for you.
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