Jan in the Loop

Jan Hofmann
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Discussing AI, product management, career and life from the perspective of a product & business leader.

Episodes

  1. Aug 8

    Episode 4 - Context is everything: High-quality knowledge work at speed with Claude Cowork & Obsidian

    AI gives you a solid draft, never a sharp one, because it doesn't know what you know. In this episode I unpack how I applied Andrej Karpathy's context wiki idea to my work as an AI-first PM: a vault of local markdown files that Claude reads as a second brain and I read in Obsidian. I cover what it does day to day (morning briefings, PRDs and prototypes drafted from real context, a live status hub), how to set it up without writing any code, the scheduled skills that stop it going stale, and where it still breaks down. Read the written version at itsjanhofmann.substack.com/p/context-is-everything-high-quality

  2. Aug 1

    Episode 3 - Vibe Coding with Claude: Building a D&D Campaign Hub in an afternoon

    I asked Claude to build me a D&D initiative tracker. An afternoon later I had a deployed campaign hub with a database, a session journal and an automated quest log, and I never wrote any code. Here's how it came together, what I'd do differently, and what it changed about how I build.

  3. Jul 19

    Episode 2 - How to be productive with AI in 2026, personally and professionally

    How do you use AI to get more done in 2026, personally and professionally? In Episode 2 of the Jan in the Loop Podcast, I break down the three big players (ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude), what's really changed with memory, context, skills, tools and agents, and the everyday ways I put AI to work, from planning my day and tracking macros to building a custom D&D initiative tracker from scratch.Whether you're an AI holdout, a curious beginner or a seasoned power user, there's something here to spark your own ideas. Read the full post on my Substack: https://itsjanhofmann.substack.com/p/how-to-be-productive-with-ai-in-2026

  4. Jun 8

    Episode 1 - More Than A Break

    In this episode, I reflect on my 5-month sabbatical during which I explored AI and re-discovered my creativity.

    Episode 1 - More Than A Break
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Discussing AI, product management, career and life from the perspective of a product & business leader.

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  • Creator
    Jan Hofmann
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    4
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Jan Hofmann
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    Jan in the Loop