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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May 11, 2026 • 48min
Spec-driven development: The AI engineering workflow at Notion | Ryan Nystrom
Ryan Nystrom, software engineer and manager at Notion who co-founded Campsite and helped build Notion AI, talks about spec-driven development and agent-driven workflows. He describes Project Afterburner to slash CI times. He demos Boxy invoking Codex for fast PRs. He explains automating standup pre-reads and why managers should keep coding.
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May 7, 2026 • 12min
Code with Claude: The 5 biggest updates explained
A fast tour of Anthropic’s biggest builder-focused launches. It covers scheduled AI routines, rubric-scored outcomes, and teams of specialized agents working in parallel. It also explores new memory systems, why forgetting matters too, and the surprisingly big impact of higher usage limits.
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May 6, 2026 • 42min
Quests, token leaderboards, and a skills marketplace: The elite AI adoption playbook | John Kim (Sendbird)
John Kim, founder and CEO of Delight.ai and builder of AI-native company systems, shares how teams at Sendbird turn AI into a company sport. They talk quest marketplaces for internal tools, marketer-built apps, reusable skills hubs, token leaderboards, custom internal software, and hiring for curiosity, agency, and energy.
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May 4, 2026 • 55min
The internal AI tool that’s transforming how Stripe designs products | Owen Williams
Owen Williams, a Stripe design manager with an engineering streak, shares how he built Protodash, an internal AI prototyping tool. They dig into fixing off-brand AI mockups. They explore dev boxes, browser-based prototyping, and self-testing prototypes. Plus, how clickable demos, review modes, and PM adoption are reshaping product design and handoff at Stripe.
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Apr 27, 2026 • 52min
From a $6.90 newsletter to $3M API: How a non-coder built Memelord | Jason Levin
Jason Levin, founder and CEO of Memelord, turned a $6.90 meme newsletter into a $3M AI meme platform without coding. He talks about building to $100K ARR on Bubble, why agents are becoming primary users, and how marketers vibe code free tools for massive email growth. Plus: hardware hacks, hyper-personal apps, calendar-analyzing AI, and whether AI can actually be funny.
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Apr 23, 2026 • 24min
GPT 5.5 just did what no other model could
A new AI model gets pushed through three wild tests. Think a subtraction app for a second grader, a marathon code migration that ran for hours, and reverse engineering a stubborn Bluetooth pixel display. There is also a sharp look at pricing, autonomous coding loops, and why this model seems built for developers, not everyday chat.
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Apr 22, 2026 • 28min
What Claude Design is actually good for (and why Figma isn’t dead, yet)
A rapid tour of spring 2026 AI design tools. There’s a hands-on test of importing a real design system, building branded landing pages, and turning an article into a polished slide deck. It also explores wild creative redesigns, AI-made brand kits, Google’s new DESIGN.md format, and even a personal color analysis from a photo.
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Apr 20, 2026 • 1h 19min
How Intercom 2x’d their engineering velocity in 9 months with Claude Code | Brian Scanlan
Brian Scanlan, Senior Principal Engineer at Intercom leading its AI-first engineering shift, shares how the team doubled development speed in nine months. They dig into telemetry for tracking adoption, a shared skills repository with safety hooks, self-improving workflows, backlog zero becoming plausible, and why agent-friendly products need CLIs, APIs, and new onboarding thinking.
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Apr 13, 2026 • 50min
Claude Cowork 101: How to automate your workday without touching code | JJ Englert (Tenex)
JJ Englert, Tenex community enablement lead and practical AI workflow teacher, breaks down Claude Cowork for non-technical professionals. He covers smart folder projects, brain files, Gmail and Slack connectors, email tone training, multi-agent review boards, approval settings, and automated morning briefings powered by shared memory.
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Apr 8, 2026 • 45min
I built a custom Slack inbox. It was easier than you’d think. | Yash Tekriwal (Clay)
Yash Tekriwal, Head of Education at Clay and a hyper-optimizer, shares how he built an AI-powered Slack inbox and personal work command center. They talk about taming 150+ notifications, turning digests into a Kanban dashboard, why Perplexity Computer clicked for him, the rise of micro-software, and his anti-to-do approach to automating annoying work.
