AI and I

We had someone guide himself toward Jhana live on our podcast. And he narrated himself from start to finish. Jhanas are meditative bliss states and they traditionally require thousands of hours of practice. But Stephen Zerfas and his team at Jhourney are changing that—creating retreats where most participants hit a Jhana in their first week. Dan Shipper went to one of their retreats earlier this y...

Sarah Rose Siskind is incubating two types of intelligence at once: her unborn child, and FetusGPT—an LLM trained on nothing but what she hears and says throughout the day. This includes Seinfeld episodes, YouTube videos about lemurs, eight hours of snoring per night—and even conversations with me, all condensed into MP3 and text files that are used to train the AI. Since FetusGPT is learning Engl...

The world changed last week—Opus 4.5 is the best coding model Dan has ever used. It can keep coding and coding autonomously without tripping over itself—and it marks a completely new horizon for the craft of programming. The dream is here: You can write English, and make software. We had Paul Ford on AI & I to talk about it. Ford is the co-founder of Aboard and also a prolific writer. He autho...

If you had millions of people using a product you spent years building, would you kill it? That’s exactly what The Browser Company did with Arc. Originally recorded in July before The Browser Company’s acquisition by software giant Atlassian earlier this year, we’re republishing this episode because its lessons are truly timeless. Today, the team continues to operate independently under Atlassian’...

If you’re using AI to just write code, you’re missing out. Two engineers at Every shipped six features, five bug fixes, and three infrastructure updates in one week—and they did it by designing workflows with AI agents, where each task makes the next one easier, faster, and more reliable. In this episode of AI & I, Dan Shipper interviewed the pair—Kieran Klaassen, general manager of Cora, our...

Henrik Werdelin wants to launch a million businesses that each make $1M—and he’s doing it with AI. After helping launch Barkbox and Ro Health through his incubator Prehype , Henrik is distilling everything he knows into Audos , a platform that helps you use AI agents to turn your idea into a profitable, lasting company. We had him on AI & I to talk about “portfolio entrepreneurship”—a new bree...

37signals makes tens of millions in profit every year but Jason Fried isn’t all that interested in running a business. Instead, he cares most about making great products—like Basecamp , HEY , and Ruby on Rails —products that are centered around a single, coherent idea. These products are complete wholes, where each piece matters—like a Frank Lloyd Wright house or a vintage car. But how do you crea...

This episode contains sponsored content in partnership with Salesforce. At Dreamforce 2025, Every CEO Dan Shipper sat down with Silvio Savarese, chief AI scientist at Salesforce, to discuss how one of the world’s largest software companies is shaping the future of AI for the enterprise. Together, Dan and Savarese explore how his team at Salesforce develops AI solutions that now power more than 13,...

At Every, the team credits Claude Code with transforming the way they work. They now ship to codebases they barely know, each new feature makes the next easier to build, and even non-technical teammates confidently use the terminal. To explore how this happened, AI & I host Dan Shipper invited Claude Code’s creators—Cat Wu (@_catwu) and Boris Cherny (@bcherny) from Anthropic AI—to discuss what...

Good writing has always been downstream of good thinking. The average language model can help you write faster—but can it help you think better? Danny Aziz wrestled with this question while building the new version of Spiral , an AI writing partner informed by our editorial taste at Every that launched yesterday. The result is a product—and a philosophy—built by the ultimate craftsman who believes...

This episode is a little different from our usual fare: It’s a conversation with our head of AI training Alex Duffy about Good Start Labs , a company he incubated inside Every. Today, Good Start Labs is spinning out of Every as a separate company with $3.6 million in funding from General Catalyst, Inovia, Every, and a group of angel investors from top-tier AI labs like DeepMind. We get into how Al...

Aaron Levie is AI-pilled, but he’s one of the few CEOs who sees a future where AI agents work for us, instead of replacing us—helping us to do more than we could before. Aaron’s been the CEO of Box for 20 years–long enough to see a few tech revolutions up close—and taking the company AI-first gave him a glimpse of what the next one means for us. We get into why jobs aren’t going away, the new shap...

If your MCP server has dozens of tools, it’s probably built wrong. You need tools that are specific and clear for each use case—but you also can’t have too many. This creates an almost impossible tradeoff that most companies don’t know how to solve. That’s why we interviewed Alex Rattray, the founder and CEO of Stainless. Stainless builds APIs, SDKs, and MCP servers for companies like OpenAI and A...

The future has a way of showing up early to some places. In software engineering, one of those places is Cognition —the startup that made headlines in early 2024 with Devin , the world’s first autonomous coding agent, and more recently with its acquisition of the AI code editor Windsurf . Scott Wu , Cognition’s cofounder and CEO, has a front-row seat to what comes next. In this episode of AI &...

Naveen Naidu built an app that found product-market fit backwards. Most apps launch first and then try to find users. Monologue, Naveen’s AI voice dictation app that came out of beta yesterday, did the opposite. It built a following of thousands of users during its incubation period at Every—many of them switching over from venture capital-backed competitors—all while the app barely had a landing...

Noah Brier uses Claude Code as his second brain—it’s the coolest notetaking setup we’ve ever seen. He has Claude running on a server in his basement hooked up to a VPN. It stores, reads, and writes to thousands of notes in his Obsidian vault. He does it all from his phone. We had him on the show to tell us exactly how he’s pulling this off.  Dan and Noah get into: The nuts and bolts of the Claude...

We had Dean Leitersdorf on the pod and he did something no guest had ever done. Mid-sentence, he transformed from a startup founder in a black t-shirt to a wizard with light shooting from his hands. Then, he was in a white-walled game universe, and when he picked up the tissue box on his table, it morphed into a gun which he could shoot by moving his arm. He did it with one of his products, Mirage...

AGI is coming. Reid Hoffman just wrote the book on how to prepare. According to Reid, every major tech breakthrough (the written word, the printing press, the telephone) triggered mass fear. But, contrary to our worries, new technology tends to enhance human agency—even more so, if you know how to use it well. Reid is the cofounder of LinkedIn, Inflection AI, and Manas AI; a partner at venture cap...

**Automate 80% of your repetitive writing, thinking, and creative tasks****Try Spiral made by Dan Shipper & Every: https://spiral.computer?utm_source=youtube** Claire Vo built ChatPRD—an on-demand chief product officer powered by AI. It’s now used by over 10,000 product managers and is pulling in six figures in revenue. The best part? Claire has a demanding day job as the CPO at LaunchDarkly....

Read Dan Shipper's essay on the allocation economy: https://every.to/chain-of-thought/the-knowledge-economy-is-over-welcome-to-the-allocation-economy Guillermo Rauch is one of the most prolific coders of this generation. But he doesn’t think of himself as a coder anymore. Coding, he says, is a specific skill that AI is becoming great at. Instead, he thinks the future of coding is more holistic...

Dwarkesh Patel is on a quest to know everything. He’s using LLMs to enhance how he reads, learns, thinks, and conducts interviews. Dwarkesh is a podcaster who’s interviewed a wide range of people, like Mark Zuckerberg, Tony Blair, and Marc Andreesen. Before conducting each of these interviews, Dwarkesh learns as much as he can about his guest and their area of expertise—AI hardware, tense geopolit...

The smallest technical decisions become humanity's biggest pivots: The same-origin policy —a well-intentioned browser security rule from the 1990s—accidentally created Facebook, Google, and every data monopoly since. It locks your data in silos—and you stayed where your stuff already is. This dynamic created aggregators. Alex Komoroske —who led Chrome's web platform team at Google and ran...

If you had millions of people using a product you spent years building, would you kill it? That’s exactly what The Browser Company did with Arc . The internet backlash was intense, but cofounders Josh Miller and Hursh Agrawal saw that AI was about to make the web something you talk to, not just click into. The best home for that assistant was the thing that's already between you and the internet—t...

You don’t need to handle your inbox anymore. It’s Cora’s job now.  Cora is the AI chief of staff we built for your email at Every. It’s been in private beta for the last 6 months and currently manages email for 2,500 beta users—and today we’re making it available for anyone to use. Start your free 7-day trial by going to: https://cora.computer/ Cora is the $150K executive assistant that costs $15/...

Joe Hudson is a coach who works with the executives building AGI at OpenAI.  From inside OpenAI, he witnesses the full spectrum of human emotion that comes with bringing something new into the world—the exhilaration, the terror, the weight of it all. He feels these emotions, too: He believes AI will eventually replace what he does as a coach. But instead of fixating on that fear, Hudson is asking...