How I AI

Claire Vo
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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.

  1. 1d ago

    Claude Code + Obsidian: My family’s AI brain | Scott Farrar

    Scott Farrar is a math educator and parent who got tired of AI chats that drift and forget. So he built a household brain in Claude Code: a folder of Markdown files, viewed in Obsidian, that knows his appliances, warranties, insurance documents, and everything on his family’s to-do list. In this episode, Scott shows how he uses it to shop for car insurance, plan repairs, share the system with his wife, and put priority tasks and recent wins on a wall display. We also talk about AI and math learning, and why he wants AI to keep kids doing the thinking. What you’ll learn: Why he moved his home life from AI chat to Claude CodeWhat Claude told him to photograph firstHow AI made him a sharper insurance shopperThe to-do file he keeps coming back toHow he and his wife share one household brainWhy his wall display has a “recent wins” sectionHow a flipped tutor gets kids to teach the AI— Brought to you by: WorkOS—Make your app enterprise-ready, with SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and more Jira Product Discovery—Prioritize with insights, build with confidence — In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Teaser (02:41) The problem (and solution) (06:05) Demo: shopping for car insurance (08:05) Building a household brain (12:37) Type A vs. type B AI organization (14:40) His shared household to-do list (19:07) Household DAKboard wall display (21:36) Does it actually change behavior? (22:40) Household tasks to hand to AI (26:00) AI, kids, and student agency (31:16) When AI gets out of sync (32:49) Where to find Scott — Tools referenced: • Claude Code: https://www.claude.com/product/claude-code • Obsidian: https://obsidian.md/ • GitHub: https://github.com/ • DAKboard: https://dakboard.com/ — Other references: • I Built My Home’s AI Assistant (Scott’s write-up): https://sfxmath.com/work/homeai-household-knowledge-base/ • Algebuds: Student Tutors Chatbot: https://sfxmath.com/work/algebuds/ — Where to find Scott Farrar: Website: https://sfxmath.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farrarscott — Where to find Claire Vo: ChatPRD: https://www.chatprd.ai/ Website: https://clairevo.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairevo/ X: https://x.com/clairevo — Have a really cool use case of how you use AI in your work? Let us know: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfP8wYCeDo5K0DxscDmoqgkxYY8ngA3B2anUDDvC4xadGTerg/viewform — Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email jordan@penname.co.

    Claude Code + Obsidian: My family’s AI brain | Scott Farrar

  2. 2d ago

    Claude Fable 5.2 review: fast, creative, and finally not annoying

    Anthropic just released Fable 5.2, their new frontier model, and I spent two days actually building things with it before recording this. I made an animated marketing video from a single tweet, assembled a pile of unboxed furniture using only blurry floor photos, and extended our CXO brand sprites into a full bug-defense game complete with a trailer. In this episode I walk through what impressed me, what fell down, and how I’m thinking about routing tasks between Fable 5.2 and Opus 5.5 going forward. What you’ll learn: What Anthropic launched with Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, and when to reach for Fable instead of Opus 5.5My pros and cons after a couple of days of hands-on testingHow Fable 5.2 turned a tweet and a brand book into an animated video that doesn’t look like slidesThe geometry test every other model failed: assembly instructions for flat-pack furniture with no manualHow it handled a real re-architecture of ChatPRD’s product intelligence pipelineWhy I still wouldn’t let it design a website on its ownThe 3D typewriter it built me, and how you can get access to the model— In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Confessions of a Claude hater (02:54) What Anthropic launched: Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 (03:16) When to use Fable 5.2 vs. Opus 5.5 (03:30) Black holes, coding claims, and benchmarks (04:40) Guardrails and anti-distillation safeguards (05:12) My high-level pros and cons (07:23) Video generation: turning a tweet into an animated film (09:47) Animating the invader bots (11:29) Flat-pack furniture with no instructions (13:09) The bug factory game and its trailer (15:16) Real engineering: re-architecting ChatPRD’s product intelligence pipeline (16:57) Where it falls down: web design (18:08) Claire’s typewriter (23:02) How I AI bench preview (23:34) How to get it: availability, fast mode, and Fable resets (24:13) Final take — Tools referenced: • Claude Fable 5.2: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-2 • Claude Opus 5.5: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5 • Claude Code: https://claude.com/claude-code • HyperFrames: https://hyperframes.heygen.com/ • typed.page: https://typed.page/ — Other references: • Guillermo Rauch’s 3D record player: https://vinyl-gl.vercel.app/ • The bug factory game: https://www.cxo.dev/games/bug-factory — Where to find Claire Vo: ChatPRD: https://www.chatprd.ai/ Website: https://clairevo.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairevo/ X: https://x.com/clairevo — Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email jordan@penname.co.

    Claude Fable 5.2 review: fast, creative, and finally not annoying

  3. 3d ago

    How this founder built a better Duolingo with Codex | William Imoh

    William Imoh is the founder of Hackmamba, a developer marketing company, and the creator of Mural, a real-time voice app he built to learn Norwegian after moving from Dubai to Norway. He has a chemical engineering degree, taught himself to code, and spent four years as a product manager, but he had never written a line of Swift. In this episode, William shows how he used Codex and GPT-Live to build Mural natively for iOS and Android, then walks through the Lord of the Rings–themed Grok Bot “fellowship” that helps him run a team of about 25 as a solo founder. What you’ll learn: The design prompt that made Mural look nothing like any other language appWhy 1,000 days of Duolingo left him unable to hold a conversation in NorwegianWhat GPT-Live-1 costs per session and the latency threshold that makes or breaks a voice tutorHow he assigned every solo founder role to a Lord of the Rings character in GrokWhy he gave his agents access to everything across 15 open tabs, except one thingWhat he still has to do himself after the models improvedWhy the fear that keeps him up isn’t replacement—it’s dependency— Brought to you by: WorkOS—Make your app enterprise-ready, with SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and more Vanta—Automate compliance and simplify security — In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Teaser (02:52) Introduction to William and his language learning app (05:58) William’s tech background and how he started building (08:07) The first prompt (11:09) The importance of design language and articulation (14:38) Live demo: a Norwegian conversation (21:11) Having a growth mindset (22:48) Why GPT Live works for this (23:34) What it costs to run (24:50) Running Hackmamba with agents (26:58) Codex projects for organization (28:47) His Lord of the Rings Grok Bot fellowship (34:05) Recap (34:54) Prompting strategies (37:21) Where to find William — References: • Mural on GitHub: https://github.com/Chuloo/mural • Codex: https://chatgpt.com/codex • GPT-Live: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live/ • Grok Bot: https://grokbot.com/ • Cursor: https://cursor.com/ • Boki: https://boki.io/ • Notion: https://www.notion.com/ — Where to find William Imoh: X: https://x.com/iChuloo LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-imoh Hackmamba: https://hackmamba.io/ Hackmamba Podcast: https://hackmamba.io/eoc-podcast/ Mural: https://mural.chat/ — Where to find Claire Vo: ChatPRD: https://www.chatprd.ai/ Website: https://clairevo.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairevo/ X: https://x.com/clairevo — Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email jordan@penname.co.

    How this founder built a better Duolingo with Codex | William Imoh

  4. Nov 2

    How Figma’s PMs actually use AI every day | Ezra Mechaber (PM, Figma)

    Ezra Mechaber is a growth product manager at Figma whose goal is to be “lazy in the right places.” When he joined Figma, he found almost no one outside engineering using AI to get real work done, so he and a couple of fellow PMs turned his personal Claude Code setup into PM OS, a shared repo of 31 skills that every PM at Figma now uses. In this episode, Ezra walks me through his favorite skills, how he bug bashes with Codex, AutoXP—an automated growth PM that found a huge win on its very first experiment—and a real-time writing assistant he built with Jev. What you’ll learn: Why PM OS is a repo, not a productThe skill Ezra runs six times a day to tame SlackHow one repo keeps 60 to 70 PMs in syncWhy his bug-bash agent catches things he never wouldHow AutoXP runs experiments with one human checkpointWhy Jev took over every meeting he was in for two weeksWhat to do when you want to yell at your AI— Brought to you by: Optimizely—Your AI agent orchestration platform for marketing and digital teams Jira Product Discovery—Prioritize with insights, build with confidence — In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Episode preview (00:51) Introduction to Ezra Mechaber (02:04) The origin story of Figma’s PM OS (06:30) PM OS demo: the “chief of staff” setup (10:28) How the repo works: skills, hooks, and private sub-repos (12:00) How the skills got built, roasted, and whittled down (14:15) Build artifact, FigJam MCP, and coaching skills (17:33) Transitioning from the terminal to a local web front end (19:30) Bug bashing with Codex (22:08) AutoXP: an automated growth PM (26:26) Claire’s Experiment Engine backstory (26:58) Building a real-time writing assistant with Jev (33:15) Lightning round and final thoughts — Tools referenced: • Figma: https://www.figma.com/ • FigJam: https://www.figma.com/figjam/ • Figma MCP server: https://developers.figma.com/docs/figma-mcp-server/ • Claude Code: https://www.claude.com/product/claude-code • Codex: https://openai.com/codex/ • Cursor Automations: https://cursor.com/docs/cloud-agent/automations • Jev: https://typesafe.ai/ • Marker: https://marker.page/ • Instinct: https://instinct.com/ • Dots: https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/ — Other reference: • Jev for beginners: how to use it and what to build: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/jev-for-beginners-how-to-use-it-and — Where to find Ezra Mechaber: X: https://x.com/ezramechaber LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ezra-mechaber Website: https://ezramechaber.com/ — Where to find Claire Vo: ChatPRD: https://www.chatprd.ai/ Website: https://clairevo.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairevo/ X: https://x.com/clairevo — Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email jordan@penname.co.

    How Figma’s PMs actually use AI every day | Ezra Mechaber (PM, Figma)

  5. Oct 28

    Grok vs. Dot vs. Muse vs. Claude Duet: which one crushes the competition?

    I have personal-agent fatigue, so I ran the first How I AI personal-agent benchmark: Grok Bot, Dot, Muse, and Claude Duet across nine real tasks, from a Slack reply and a Sentry bug to a Figma thumbnail, inbox triage, a family newspaper, physics homework for a fourth grader, shoe shopping, and a ChatPRD launch video. I used computer use to operate them: Claude ran Dot, Codex ran the rest and scored the results live. Here’s the scoreboard—and which agent I’d actually trust for work vs. life. — Brought to you by: WorkOS—Make your app enterprise-ready, with SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and more Firecrawl—Give your AI agents web data and beyond — In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Introduction (02:13) The personal-agent benchmark setup (05:00) The nine tasks and the prompts I used (07:20) Scoreboard overview (10:06) Task 1: Draft a Slack reply as me (11:39) Task 2: Cut a short-form video from raw Dropbox footage (14:56) Task 3: Fix a bug from Sentry (17:30) Task 4: Build a How I AI thumbnail in Figma (19:25) Task 5: Triage my inbox for to-dos (21:06) Task 6: Build a family newspaper (23:30) Task 7: Explain a physics homework question to a fourth grader (24:54) Task 8: Shop for shoes (26:46) Task 9: Make a ChatPRD Product Intelligence launch video (30:01) Final scores (32:38) My takeaways — Tools referenced: • Grok Bot: https://x.ai/bot • Dot: https://chatgpt.com/features/dots/ • Meta Muse: https://ai.meta.com/muse/ • Claude Duet: https://claude.com/product/claude-duet • Codex: https://openai.com/codex • ElevenLabs: https://elevenlabs.io/ • Figma: https://www.figma.com/ • Sentry: https://sentry.io/ • Linear: https://linear.app/ • Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/ — Where to find Claire Vo: ChatPRD: https://www.chatprd.ai/ Website: https://clairevo.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairevo/ X: https://x.com/clairevo — Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email jordan@penname.co.

    Grok vs. Dot vs. Muse vs. Claude Duet: which one crushes the competition?

  6. Oct 26

    Why Reddit built its own AI prototyping tool | Blair Metcalf

    Blair Metcalf is the principal UX engineer at Reddit and the builder of Reddit Proto, the company’s in-house vibe-coding harness. With a design system MCP that maps Reddit’s product language to production code, Proto has reached 100% adoption across Reddit’s UX and product org, and more than 700 prototypes are live on it. What you’ll learn: Why Reddit built its own prototyping harnessHow designers share prototypes with leadership safelyWhy real Reddit data beats mock dataHow one annotation becomes a code edit in CursorWhat a “feature capsule” isWhy Blair built a “Rosetta stone”Blair’s surprising fix when AI goes sidewaysWho turned out to be Reddit’s best prototypers— This entire episode is brought to you by: Firecrawl—Give your AI agents web data and beyond — In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Introduction to Blair (02:31) Reddit Proto demo (09:15) Annotations to Cursor: the targeted edit workflow (11:19) Internal deployment and adoption (14:14) How leadership reviews and gives feedback (15:52) Engineering handoff and the feature capsule (17:50) How the custom MCP was built (21:41) Quick recap (24:55) Lightning round and final thoughts — Tools referenced: • Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/ • Figma: https://www.figma.com/ • Figma MCP (Figma’s Model Context Protocol integration): https://www.figma.com/mcp-catalog/ • Code Connect (Figma’s code mapping tool): https://www.figma.com/developers/code-connect • Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/ • ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/ • Vercel (referenced as inspiration for internal deploy infra): https://vercel.com/ — Other references: • Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/ • Kubernetes: https://kubernetes.io/ — Where to find Blair Metcalf: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jblairmetcalf — Where to find Claire Vo: ChatPRD: https://www.chatprd.ai/ Website: https://clairevo.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairevo/ X: https://x.com/clairevo — Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email jordan@penname.co.

    Why Reddit built its own AI prototyping tool | Blair Metcalf

  7. Oct 21

    Claude Duet is beautiful. I still forgot to use it

    Anthropic's new personal agent, Claude Duet, lives on your phone, inherits all your Claude plugins and connectors, and is pitched at small business owners and busy professionals. It's the most polished agent launch I've seen: thoughtful onboarding, task lists, first-class artifacts, and Slack-style channels. But polish isn't enough when you're competing with every other personal agent for attention. I put it to work on my inbox and Slack, my sales pipeline, a Google Docs sales deck, a launch video, and finding Warriors tickets for my kids, and I'll walk you through what it nails, where it stalls, and what Anthropic needs to fix before it can become anyone's number one agent. What you’ll learn: What Claude Duet is and who Anthropic built it forThe design details that make it far more polished than other personal agent launchesHow task lists, artifacts, and channels work as agent primitivesWhy a “proactive” agent that never nudges you is a growth problemHow model latency kills your willingness to work with an agent synchronouslyWhere it fell short on real tasks, from inbox triage to sales decks to launch videosWhy missing desktop and multiplayer support keeps it out of my working stack— In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Personal agent fatigue: does Claude Duet make the cut? (00:40) What Claude Duet is and who it’s for (01:39) Why the design polish stands out (03:06) Task lists, artifacts, and channels (04:53) The icon (05:27) What I didn’t like: not proactive enough (07:02) Testing it on email, Slack, and Warriors tickets (07:41) Why latency matters so much in a personal agent (10:20) The missing desktop app (12:12) Sales pipeline and a Google Docs deck (13:10) Launch videos and the local skills gap (14:00) Single-player vs. multiplayer agents (15:05) Final verdict — Tools referenced: • Claude Duet (Anthropic): https://claude.com/resources/articles/claude-duet • Claude Duet Waitlist: https://claude.com/product/claude-duet • Claude Cowork: https://claude.com/product/cowork • Meta Muse: https://muse.ai/ • Codex (OpenAI): https://openai.com/codex • Grok Bot: https://x.ai/bot — Where to find Claire Vo: ChatPRD: https://www.chatprd.ai/ Website: https://clairevo.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairevo/ X: https://x.com/clairevo — Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email jordan@penname.co.

    Claude Duet is beautiful. I still forgot to use it

  8. Oct 19

    “Claude cuts my TikTok”: How this creator is scaling video with AI | Brooke Lacey

    Brooke Lacey has been making videos since before Facebook had video, and she built a TikTok audience of more than 290,000 by learning to cut short-form videos herself. With over 25 years in tech, she now builds her own apps, including Zosha, a free mobile app for learning AI. In this episode, Brooke walks me through the Claude Code, FFmpeg, and Whisper workflow that edits her TikToks in about 15 seconds, how she mines her comments for new scripts, and how she runs a weekly short-form operation with no editor. What you’ll learn: How Claude Code edits a raw phone video on her computer in about 15 secondsHow she taught Claude her jump-cut cadenceWhy her TikTok comments became her content briefHow she keeps growing her audience while posting just once a week—and what’s nextWhat over 25 years in tech taught her about this AI moment— Brought to you by: Firecrawl—Give your AI agents web data and beyond Auros—The human network behind AI — In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Intro and guest welcome (02:30) Brooke’s background in video (06:56) Her first session cutting videos with Claude Code (08:51) Live demo: Claude edits a video in real time (11:05) Walking through the edit chain (15:58) How she taught Claude her cadence, her hooks, and what funny sounds like (25:36) Quick recap (26:20) Posting frequency, live streaming plans, and TikTok ads (28:00) Lightning round: Gen X, wisened experience, and YOLO energy (32:43) When Claude disappoints: the lane OS, status files, and how she prompts it back (34:50) Where to find Brooke and the Zosha app — Tools referenced: • Claude Code: https://claude.ai/code • FFmpeg: https://ffmpeg.org • Whisper (OpenAI): https://openai.com/research/whisper — Other reference: • How I AI episode with John Blackman (91-year-old vibe coder): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-a-91-year-old-vibe-coded-a-complex?utm_source=publication-search — Where to find Brooke: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brookejlacey X: https://x.com/brookejlacey Zosha app: http://zosha.app/ — Where to find Claire Vo: ChatPRD: https://www.chatprd.ai/ Website: https://clairevo.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairevo/ X: https://x.com/clairevo — Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email jordan@penname.co.

    “Claude cuts my TikTok”: How this creator is scaling video with AI | Brooke Lacey
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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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  • Creator
    Claire Vo
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    126
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