How I AI
Claire Vo
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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Mar 25, 2026 • 42min
How Stripe built “minions”—AI coding agents that ship 1,300 PRs weekly from Slack reactions | Steve Kaliski (Stripe engineer)
Steve Kaliski, a Stripe engineer building developer tools and AI coding systems, shares how minions turn Slack reactions into code and ship 1,300 PRs a week. They explore cloud devboxes, why great internal tooling helps AI work better, how non-engineers can trigger changes, and why autonomous agents may soon pay other services directly.
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Mar 23, 2026 • 34min
How Microsoft's AI VP automates everything with Warp | Marco Casalaina
Marco Casalaina, Microsoft VP of Core AI Products and AI futurist, shares how he uses Warp to automate the annoying stuff. He explores micro-agents for Azure admin, document scanning, PDF merging, and video compression. He also gets into email-triggered workflows, scheduled ChatGPT tasks, and shortcuts that make AI outputs more reliable.
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Mar 16, 2026 • 38min
From journalist to iOS developer: How LinkedIn’s editor builds with Claude Code | Daniel Roth
Daniel Roth, LinkedIn editor in chief and former business journalist, talks about building iOS apps with Claude Code despite not being an engineer. He gets into his Bob and Ray dual-agent setup. He uses AI to rank features by impact and effort. He stores decisions in markdown for long-term memory. He also shares his picky customer mindset, App Store workflow, and end-of-day Copilot check.
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Mar 11, 2026 • 40min
From Figma to Claude Code and back | Gui Seiz & Alex Kern (Figma)
Gui Seiz, a Figma designer focused on workflow collaboration, and Alex Kern, a Figma engineer building AI-assisted development tools, explore a live back-and-forth between design and code. They cover pulling running apps into Figma, pushing edits back with Claude Code, exporting product states, reviving real-time collaboration, and automating shipping steps with custom skills.
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Mar 9, 2026 • 50min
Mastering Midjourney: How to create consistent, beautiful brand imagery without complex prompts | Jamey Gannon
Jamey Gannon, an AI creative director who crafts cohesive brand visuals with Midjourney and Nano Banana. She explains building mood boards and style references, fast-create testing, personalization codes to lock in a signature aesthetic, and using Nano Banana for precise fixes. Short, practical workflows for creating consistent, beautiful brand imagery without complex prompts.
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Mar 2, 2026 • 59min
How Coinbase scaled AI to 1,000+ engineers | Chintan Turakhia
Chintan Turakhia, Senior Director of Engineering at Coinbase who led AI adoption for 1,000+ engineers, talks about scaling AI across a large org. He describes rewriting a product under tight deadlines, the PR “speed run” that generated rapid momentum, building internal AI agents and analytics to identify power users, and turning feedback into automated ticket pipelines.
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Feb 25, 2026 • 49min
5 OpenClaw agents run my home, finances, and code | Jesse Genet
Jesse Genet, entrepreneur and homeschooling parent who runs her home with five specialized OpenClaw agents. She layers agents on an Obsidian second brain and assigns each a clear role. Topics include photographing books to generate lesson plans, agent personas and onboarding, multi-agent collaboration limits, Mac Mini partitioning for privacy, and hands-free printing and inventory workflows.
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Feb 23, 2026 • 52min
“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, a Notion AI designer who builds shared code-first prototyping tools. He explains a Next.js prototype playground for collaborative, production-like prototypes. He demos using Claude Code plan mode, custom slash commands and skills to automate tasks. He covers turning Figma into working code and teaching AI to self-verify to catch reality early.
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Feb 16, 2026 • 49min
How this visually impaired engineer uses Claude Code to make his life more accessible | Joe McCormick
Joe McCormick, a principal software engineer who rebuilt his workflow after losing central vision, describes creating small AI-powered Chrome extensions for accessibility. He demos image-description and spell-check tools, outlines a Slack link summarizer, and explains using Claude Code, VS Code, and Claude Skills to speed development. He also covers accessibility tweaks, ARIA-friendly modals, and multimodal AI for reading with kids.
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Feb 11, 2026 • 30min
Claude Opus 4.6 vs. GPT-5.3 Codex: How I shipped 93,000 lines of code in 5 days
They run the newest AI coding models head-to-head on a real redesign and large refactor. They compare creative planning and visual redesign skills versus code review and architecture analysis. They reveal how two models combined shipped massive change quickly and discuss cost and workflow tradeoffs for fast, expensive model variants.
