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Andrew Warner asked: "Every time I talk to a founder, I hear about some AI workflow I never would have thought to try. What are the non-obvious ones you're seeing?" Most people use AI to make stuff. The overlooked category: using AI to mirror things back to you. Scoring. Flagging. Routing. That's where the leverage is hiding. Ask your own question at DearBen.ai. -- # SHOW NOTES - The Make vs Mirro...

Work happens in conversations. The problem is it stays there. You hash out a product idea, talk through requirements, make decisions — and then somehow you're supposed to recreate all of that in a document later. That's where everything falls apart. I use AI to extract the work that already happened and turn it into artifacts that keep the momentum going. PRDs, user stories, requirements — pulled...

This isn't a Q&A episode — it's for builders who want to see how I actually work. I walk through using Claude Code and Every's skill creator to build the system that helps me prepare for Dear Ben episodes. The process: do it manually first, pay attention to what you repeat, then systematize. Ask your own question at DearBen.ai. -- # SHOW NOTES • Do it manually first, then systematize — I did t...

Murali asked: "I run a 600-person software dev agency. How do I index our sales material so my team can actually find what they need?" Before jumping to AI, ask: is this a process problem or a familiarity problem? When the people creating docs aren't the ones searching, semantic search creates real leverage. Ask your own question at DearBen.ai. -- # SHOW NOTES • First question: is this a structure...

Henry asked: "What's your best practice advice for winning AI search? Nobody really knows how to game the system." There's a lot of speculation presented as fact in this space. But practitioners who've been deep in SEO are starting to converge on real patterns. I brought in Chirag from Taco to break down what's actually working. Ask your own question at DearBen.ai. --- # SHOW NOTES • LLMs run web...

Part 2 of the behind-the-scenes series. I take Claude's workflow spec and build it in Lindy — and debug it live when things break. The lesson: check templates first before building from scratch. Lindy has out-of-the-box knowledge base templates I could have started with. Ask your own question at DearBen.ai. -- # SHOW NOTES • Check templates first — Lindy has out-of-the-box knowledge base templates...

Jason asked: "How do you manage junior developers when they're using AI to build systems more sophisticated than they understand?" The solution isn't more oversight — it's constraints that force understanding. I share three practices that work together. Ask your own question at DearBen.ai. --- # SHOW NOTES • Spec-driven development: write what the system should do in plain language before any code...

Jeff asked: "Can AI generate my content, let me approve it in Slack, then auto-post to LinkedIn, X, and Reddit?" The orchestration is easy — scheduling, APIs, multi-platform posting. That's solved. The hard part is content quality. Getting AI output that doesn't sound like AI. Ask your own question at DearBen.ai. --- # SHOW NOTES • Why orchestration (scheduling, APIs) is the easy part — every plat...