AI & I
Dan Shipper
Learn how the smartest people in the world are using AI to think, create, and relate. Each week I interview founders, filmmakers, writers, investors, and others about how they use AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Midjourney in their work and in their lives. We screen-share through their historical chats and then experiment with AI live on the show. Join us to discover how AI is changing how we think about our world—and ourselves.
For more essays, interviews, and experiments at the forefront of AI: https://every.to/chain-of-thought?sort=newest.
For more essays, interviews, and experiments at the forefront of AI: https://every.to/chain-of-thought?sort=newest.
Episodes
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May 13, 2026 • 1h 10min
Claude Code Can Be Your Second Brain
Noah Brier, founder and AI strategist who builds AI workflows, explains running Claude Code on an Obsidian vault as a personal second brain. He walks through a phone-first deep-work setup, a thinking-agent that reads and logs insights, and the nuts-and-bolts of running Claude Code from a home server tied to Obsidian.
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May 8, 2026 • 43min
The Secrets of Claude's Platform From the Team Who Built It
Katelyn Lesse, Head of Engineering at Anthropic who builds Claude’s platform infrastructure, and Angela Jiang, Head of Product who designs Cloud Managed Agents, discuss platform evolution from API to stateful agents. They cover managed-agent primitives, production infrastructure challenges for always-on team agents, harness-model coupling, multi-agent orchestration, and measuring success by outcomes and budgets.
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May 6, 2026 • 58min
Why We Switched From Claude Code to Codex
Austin Tedesco, head of growth at Every and a power user of Codex and Claude Code, explains why he moved his work into Codex. They explore AI as a desktop work interface. They cover folders, reviewer agents, and automations across Gmail, Slack, and Notion. They also get into turning transcripts into launch plans, rebuilding KPI tracking, and using AI for recruiting.
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Apr 29, 2026 • 54min
How Stripe Is Building for an Agent-native World
Emily Glassberg Sands, who leads data and AI at Stripe, brings a front-row view of how AI is reshaping online commerce. She gets into why AI companies are scaling at breakneck speed. She explores compute theft, lifecycle fraud, and the AI versus AI security race. Plus, she looks at outcome-based billing, agent shoppers, and what payments need in an agent-native world.
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Apr 22, 2026 • 29min
The AI Sandwich: Where Humans Excel in an AI World
Kieran Klaassen, Cora GM and creator of the compound engineering method, maps out an AI sandwich where people set the frame and polish the result. He explores when to stay involved and when to step back. The conversation touches on why judgment and taste still matter, what a real AGI bar looks like, and how his classical composer background shapes ideas about craft, performance, and joy at work.
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Apr 15, 2026 • 54min
The AI Model Built for What LLMs Can't Do
Eve Bodnia, founder and CEO of Logical Intelligence, is building verifiable AI with energy-based models. She digs into why token-by-token systems struggle with mission-critical work. The conversation explores energy landscapes, what it means for AI to understand data, why progress may be plateauing, and how plain English could lead to formally verified code.
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Apr 8, 2026 • 50min
We Gave Every Employee an AI Agent. Here's What Happened.
Brandon Gell, Every’s COO and an early builder of personal AI tools, joins Willie Williams, Every’s head of platform and the engineer behind its AI systems. They dig into Zosia’s leap from household helper to inbox wrangler, what changed when everyone got an agent, how bots copy their humans, weird group chat behavior, memory gaps, trust in public workflows, and the buildout of Plus One.
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Apr 1, 2026 • 53min
If SaaS Is Dead, Linear Didn't Get the Memo
Karri Saarinen, Linear cofounder and CEO, is a product leader known for sharp design craft. He talks about why Linear ignored the chatbot rush, how it is building a shared workspace for humans and AI agents, and why the SaaS extinction story is overblown. They also dig into product memory, code review workflows, and the tension between speed and thoughtful product decisions.
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Mar 25, 2026 • 49min
How to Build an Agent-native Product | Mike Krieger
Mike Krieger, Instagram co-founder and Anthropic Labs product leader, digs into what makes an agent-native product actually work. He talks about why AI speeds building but not taste. Why vibe coding leads to messy overbuilding. Why rewrites are now normal. They also explore tiny teams, product conviction, enterprise guardrails, and the rise of personal agents.
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Mar 18, 2026 • 57min
How Every Builds a Writing Team in the Age of AI
Kate Lee, editor in chief at Every and a veteran editor shaped by publishing, Medium, WeWork, and Stripe Press, talks about building a writing team with AI. She covers using AI to sort hundreds of job applicants. She gets into training tools on editorial standards. She also shares the scramble of publishing two major model reviews in just 24 hours.
