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Video•Feb 4, 2026
AI Can Be Your "Always-On Team" That Works While You Sleep
The video showcases how AI can serve as an “always‑on team,” automatically gathering and presenting customer intelligence while the user sleeps. Using Databricks as a data lake, the speaker built a workflow that, given an email address, pulls a comprehensive profile—company size, product usage, partnership status—and appends it to a KOD (knowledge‑on‑demand) page before each call. He recounts a recent embarrassment when he entered a meeting unaware of a partner relationship, then demonstrates how the system now delivers crisp, ready‑to‑use notes, turning raw data into a concise briefing. The automation cuts prep time, eliminates knowledge gaps, and scales personalized outreach, giving sales and support teams a competitive edge in fast‑moving SaaS environments.
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Video•Jan 30, 2026
Build Custom CLI Tools for Your Specific AI Workflows
The video showcases a custom command‑line interface, dubbed Sketch, that acts as a wrapper around Google’s Gemini model to streamline specific AI‑driven web design tasks. By feeding structured prompts—such as building a Christmas‑decorations store with a GitHub‑light theme—the CLI orchestrates...
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Video•Jan 30, 2026
How to Safely Delegate Calendar Scheduling to Clawdbot (Moltbot)
The video documents a user’s attempt to hand over family calendar management to an AI assistant, Clawdbot (Moltbot), by granting it edit permissions and issuing scheduling commands through Telegram. While the bot could read and categorize events, it lacked awareness of...
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Video•Jan 29, 2026
Clawdbot as an Executive Assistant
The video demonstrates a founder’s experiment using Claude bot as a virtual executive assistant, assigning it a separate email address and read‑only access to his personal calendar to test how closely it can mimic a human EA. By granting only read...
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Video•Jan 28, 2026
I Gave Clawdbot (Now Moltbot) Access to My Computer, Calendar, and Emails: Here’s What Happened
The episode documents a hands‑on trial of Claudebot—now renamed Moltbot—an open‑source AI agent that can act on a user’s desktop, calendar and email. The host invites the bot into a Riverside podcast via Telegram, then walks through granting microphone, camera...
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Video•Jan 27, 2026
Context and Diagrams Are the Best Way to Get AI to Do What You Want
The video explains how providing explicit context—particularly through visual diagrams—enables large language models to perform code‑related tasks more accurately. It argues that AI agents start each session with a blank slate, unaware of the relationships between components in an application,...
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Video•Jan 23, 2026
Use an Index File Strategy to Help AI Discover Relevant Context
The video explains how the creator uses an index‑file strategy—organizing prompts and reference material in an Obsidian vault—to give Claude, an Anthropic language model, richer context for every interaction. By feeding Claude a comprehensive writing style guide that the model helped...
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Video•Jan 21, 2026
Automating Academic Research with Claude
The video showcases a workflow built around Claude, an AI assistant, to automate the daily hunt for new academic papers on a pre‑print server. By instructing Claude to run a routine search each morning, the user receives a markdown file...
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Podcast•Jan 19, 2026•43 min
Claude Code for Product Managers: Research, Writing, Context Libraries, Custom To-Do System, and More | Teresa Torres
In this episode, Teresa Torres walks listeners through how she transformed her productivity by building a custom task‑management system in Claude Code, moving from Trello to a markdown‑driven workflow integrated with Obsidian. She demonstrates automating daily research digests, organizing context...
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Video•Jan 16, 2026
Automated Code Review Has Become OpenAI's Most Widely Adopted Codex Feature
The video highlights OpenAI’s Codex automated code‑review feature, now the platform’s most widely adopted capability. By typing a simple "/review" prompt, developers can trigger a full‑stack analysis of their code without any GitHub integration, and the model adopts a reviewer...
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Video•Jan 14, 2026
"With Coding Agents, It Doesn't Get Easier, but You Just Move Way Faster."
The video showcases how coding agents such as Codex can automatically generate a self-contained, milestone-driven plan stored in a markdown file, shifting developers from manual outlining to AI-assisted planning. By feeding the specification into a prompt, the agent produces a roughly...
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Podcast•Jan 12, 2026•53 min
“A Full Software Engineering Teammate”: OpenAI Product Lead on Getting the Most Out of Codex | Alexander Embiricos
In this episode, OpenAI Codex product lead Alexander Embiricos walks listeners through practical workflows for using Codex—from simple VS Code prompts to parallel coding with Git worktrees and detailed implementation plans via a Plans.md approach. He shares how OpenAI built the...
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Video•Jan 9, 2026
Extract Your "Unspoken Culture" From Meeting Data
The video showcases how Granola’s AI can turn raw meeting recordings into an “unspoken culture handbook,” automatically summarizing how a company actually operates based on conversational data. By feeding months of transcript data into a single prompt, the tool surfaces concrete...
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Video•Jan 7, 2026
Using Grok to Find "Diamonds in the Rough" Talent
The video demonstrates how recruiters can leverage the AI‑driven platform Grok to surface under‑the‑radar social‑media creators who align with niche topics such as Zapier, no‑code, agent building, automation, and music. By issuing a natural‑language prompt—e.g., “find X posters who are fans...
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Video•Jan 5, 2026
Zapier's CEO Shares His Personal AI Stack | Wade Foster
Wade Foster, co‑founder and CEO of Zapier, joins the How I AI podcast to walk through his personal AI stack and demonstrate how the company embeds artificial intelligence into everyday workflows. He argues that leadership must go beyond memos about...
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Video•Dec 31, 2025
Preparing for a Business Dinner with the Help of AI
The video demonstrates how an executive used generative AI to prepare for a CXO Collective dinner. By taking a screenshot of the guest list and feeding it into an AI agent, the system automatically searched the web and LinkedIn for...
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Podcast•Dec 29, 2025•43 min
How Webflow’s CPO Built an AI Chief of Staff to Manage Her Calendar, Prep for Meetings, and Drive AI Adoption...
In this episode, Webflow CPO Rachel Wolan explains how she built a custom AI "chief of staff" that syncs with her calendar, email, and other tools to triage tasks, prep for meetings, and give candid feedback on her time usage....
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Video•Dec 23, 2025
Interactive Sessions Beat Presentations Every Time
The video argues that interactive sessions consistently outperform traditional slide‑based presentations, using a live, hands‑on demo to illustrate the point. The presenter walks the audience through a simple exercise on bolt.new, asking everyone to copy‑paste a prompt that generates a...
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Video•Dec 19, 2025
If You're Doing a Repeated Task Every Week, Spend that Time Automating It Instead
The video introduces Exec Prep GPT, a generative‑AI assistant built to automate the preparation and feedback of “tee‑up” documents that executives use to surface decisions. The presenter feeds the model a deliberately weak tee‑up—lacking clear purpose, approver, and background—to showcase how the...
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Video•Dec 16, 2025
Automate Your Weekly Meeting Prep with AI Agents
The video introduces an AI‑driven workflow designed to automate the preparation for weekly meetings by acting as a personal “second brain.” The presenter explains that the agent first scans the user’s calendar, flags meetings that require advance work, and then...
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Video•Dec 12, 2025
Transform Static Research Into Interactive AI Personas
The video showcases a new AI-driven platform that converts static market research into dynamic, conversational personas capable of interacting 24/7. By feeding research data into the system, marketers can generate distinct virtual characters—such as “Balanced Blake” and “Aiden”—that embody the...
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Podcast•Nov 24, 2025•0 min
How to Create Your Own AI Performance Coach: Optimizing Your Unique Nutrition, Recovery, and Injury Management Needs | Lucas Werthein...
Lucas Werthein, COO and co‑founder of Cactus, explains how he built a personalized AI wellness coach using ChatGPT that integrates medical imaging, blood work, wearables and nutrition data to protect his joints, speed recovery, and sustain peak athletic performance despite...
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Podcast•Nov 19, 2025•0 min
“Farm-to-Table Software”: How I Built a Thanksgiving Party Hub Using Lovable for Managing Invites, Dishes, Shared Recipes, and Photos
In this pre-Thanksgiving episode, the host demonstrates how they built a custom Thanksgiving party hub in Lovable, covering guest management, dish tracking, recipe sharing, and photo galleries. They detail the process of refining AI‑generated designs with Google Fonts, Tailwind, and...
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Podcast•Nov 17, 2025•0 min
“Nobody Wanted to Do This Work”: How Emmy Award–Winning Filmmakers Use AI to Automate the Tedious Parts of Documentaries
In this episode, Tim McAleer, a technology lead at Ken Burns’s Florentine Films, explains how he built custom AI tools that automate the most labor‑intensive parts of documentary production, from extracting metadata and OCR’ing historic documents to creating searchable vector...
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