How I AI

Brian Scanlan is a senior principal engineer at Intercom, where he’s led the company’s transformation to AI-first engineering. In just nine months, Intercom doubled their R&D throughput while maintaining code quality, with 100% of engineers—plus designers, PMs, and TPMs—now shipping code via Claude Code. What you’ll learn: How Intercom doubled their merged PRs per R&D employee in just nine...

JJ Englert leads community enablement at Tenex. In this episode, JJ provides a complete zero-to-one tutorial on Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s desktop tool that sits between simple chat and full terminal-based coding. What you’ll learn: How to create your first Claude Cowork project by connecting a folder on your computer and building context over time The “brain” file strategy: how to create a prefer...

Yash Tekriwal is the head of education at Clay. A self-described hyper-optimizer, Yash has built multiple custom productivity applications using Perplexity Computer and OpenClaw to manage his overwhelming daily workflow—including a Slack digest system that categorizes over 150 daily notifications into actionable priorities, and a consolidated news/email/Slack dashboard that serves as his personal...

Al Chen is a field engineer at Galileo, an observability platform for AI applications, where he works on the front lines with enterprise customers asking highly technical questions. Despite never having held an engineering role, Al has built a system using Claude Code to query Galileo’s 15 separate repositories, combine that with Confluence documentation and customer-specific quirks, and deliver h...

Hilary Gridley is an entrepreneur, former product leader, and new mom who previously appeared on the podcast discussing AI for managers. She returns to share how she's transformed her approach to personal productivity using Claude Code as her primary tool for managing both professional work and life admin. Hilary demonstrates her "anti-system system"—a philosophy that prioritizes sim...

Steve Kaliski is a software engineer at Stripe who has spent the past six and a half years building developer tools and payment infrastructure. He’s part of the team that created “minions”—Stripe’s internal AI coding agents, which now ship approximately 1,300 pull requests per week with minimal human intervention beyond code review. In this episode, Steve demonstrates how Stripe engineers activate...

Marco Casalaina , VP of Core AI Products and AI Futurist at Microsoft, demonstrates how he uses AI tools to automate administrative tasks that typically consume valuable time. Rather than using Warp as a coding assistant (its primary marketed purpose), Marco leverages it to manage Azure resources, scan documents, compress videos, and more. He shows how these “micro-agents” can reduce friction in e...

Daniel Roth , editor in chief at LinkedIn, went from business writer to iOS app developer, without ever learning how to code. Using Claude Code, Daniel built and shipped multiple production-ready iOS apps to the App Store, including Commutely, a personalized train-tracking app for New York commuters. What you’ll learn: How to set up a dual-agent Claude Code system (builder + reviewer) Why being a...

Most teams are still passing static design files back and forth, and most Figma files are already out of date by the time they reach engineering. Gui Seiz (designer) and Alex Kern (engineer) from Figma walk through the exact workflow their team uses to bridge that gap with AI, live onscreen. They demo how to pull a running web app directly into Figma using the Figma MCP, edit it collaboratively, a...

Jamey Gannon is an AI creative director who specializes in creating consistent, beautiful brand imagery using AI tools. In this episode, Jamey demonstrates her streamlined workflow for generating cohesive brand assets using Midjourney, Nano Banana, and other AI image tools. She walks through her process of creating mood boards, using style references, developing personalization codes, and strategi...

Chintan Turakhia is Senior Director of Engineering at Coinbase, where he’s led the transformation of a 1,000-plus-engineer organization to embrace AI tools at scale. When tasked with rewriting Coinbase’s self-custody wallet into a consumer social app in just six to nine months, Chintan turned to AI as a force multiplier. His team has achieved remarkable efficiency gains, including reducing PR revi...

Jesse Genet is a homeschooling parent and entrepreneur who runs her household with five specialized OpenClaw agents. She layers them on top of her Obsidian “second brain,” deploys each on its own Mac Mini, and assigns every agent a distinct role—homeschool, finance, scheduling, development, and operations—so each one operates with clear scope and responsibility. What you’ll learn: How Jesse set up...

Brian Lovin is a designer at Notion AI who has transformed how the design team builds prototypes, by creating a shared code environment powered by Claude Code. Instead of designers working in isolated repositories or limited to static Figma designs, Brian built a collaborative “prototype playground” where the entire team can create, share, and iterate on functional prototypes. In this episode, Bri...

Joe McCormick is a principal software engineer at Babylist who lost most of his central vision due to a rare genetic disorder right before starting college. He pivoted from mechanical engineering to computer science and now leads AI enablement at Babylist. Joe demonstrates how he uses AI to build micro Chrome extensions that make his everyday work and life more accessible, showing how personal sof...

I put the newest AI coding models from OpenAI and Anthropic head-to-head, testing them on real engineering work I’m actually doing. I compare GPT-5.3 Codex with Opus 4.6 (and Opus 4.6 Fast) by asking them to redesign my marketing website and refactor some genuinely gnarly components. Through side-by-side experiments, I break down where each model shines—creative development versus code review—and...

CJ Hess is a software engineer at Tenex who has built some of the most useful tools and workflows for being a “real AI engineer.” In this episode, CJ demonstrates his custom-built tool, Flowy, that transforms Claude’s ASCII diagrams into interactive visual mockups and flowcharts. He also shares his process for using model-to-model comparison to ensure that his AI-generated code is high-quality, an...

Guillermo Rauch , the CEO of Vercel, demonstrates how v0 has evolved from a simple prototyping tool to a complete development environment that supports the entire Git workflow. Guillermo shows how Vercel built skills.sh—a viral marketplace with over 34,000 community-submitted skills—using v0, and how the tool enables non-technical team members to contribute production-ready code changes. He walks...

Reid Robinson , Principal AI Product Strategist at Zapier, shares how he uses Model Context Protocols (MCPs) to automate tedious tasks and create powerful workflows. He demonstrates practical workflows that combine Zapier’s more than 8,000 app connections with AI tools like Claude to create systems that work while he sleeps. What you’ll learn: How to use Zapier’s MCP server to create custom collec...

In this episode, I take you through my unfiltered experience with Clawdbot , the viral open-source AI agent that’s been taking over tech Twitter. (In the time since this was recorded, the tool was renamed Moltbot , but we’re calling it Clawdbot here to match the episode.) It’s an autonomous AI that can run code, spin up sub-agents, join video calls, and take real actions on your machine. I invite...

John Lindquist is the co-founder of egghead.io and an expert in leveraging AI tools for professional software development. In this episode, John shares advanced techniques for using AI coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor that go far beyond basic prompting. He demonstrates how senior engineers can use mermaid diagrams for context loading, create custom hooks for automated code quality checks,...

Teresa Torres is the author of Continuous Discovery Habits and an internationally acclaimed speaker and coach. In this episode, Teresa demonstrates how she’s built a personalized productivity system using Claude Code to manage her tasks, automate research collection, and improve her writing. She shows how non-developers can leverage AI tools to create personalized workflows that match their unique...

Alexander Embiricos , the product lead for Codex at OpenAI, shares practical workflows for getting the most out of this AI coding agent. In this episode, he demonstrates how both non-technical users and experienced engineers can leverage Codex to accelerate development, from making simple code changes to building production-ready applications. Alex walks through real examples of using Codex in VS...

Wade Foster is the co-founder and CEO of Zapier. In this episode, Wade shows how he uses meeting transcripts, Zapier agents, and even Grok to analyze company culture, evaluate interview candidates, and source talent from unexpected places. He explains why CEOs need to lead by example when it comes to AI adoption and shares practical workflows that any executive can implement to make hiring more ef...

Rachel Wolan , the chief product officer at Webflow, has embraced AI not just as a product leader but as a hands-on builder. A coder since age 16, Rachel has returned to her technical roots by creating a custom AI chief-of-staff application that helps manage her executive workload. In this episode, she demonstrates how she uses personal AI software to prep for meetings, triage her calendar, manage...

Brian Greenbaum is a Senior Staff Product Designer at Pendo who led a company-wide AI transformation after a personal epiphany while on paternity leave. After experiencing the power of AI coding tools firsthand, he created a structured approach to help his entire product organization adopt AI. In this episode, Brian shares his complete playbook for driving AI adoption across teams, measuring succe...