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"I've been building that up where if I'm working with this and something goes wrong, I would essentially hop into the place where I have these skills and say, 'Here's what happened. Give me a suggestion on how to improve this skill so this doesn't happen again.'"
"The process itself of building this was very much prompt driven, I'll say, chatting in Slack and saying, hey, wouldn't it be nice if we had a hub for this"
"OpenClaw finally allows me to get to because it's actually doing the heavy lifting... I want to be able to take photos of a lesson that I do and then just upload them and have the actual OpenClaw log the full lesson contents."
"So what I can do is say send all five states signup flow to Figma. Now the agent's going to do is read my codebase, understand what I'm referring to when I say those five states, and for each one of those, it's going to individually import that one by one into Figma"
"I thought it might be fun to have a deer in a New York City apartment. I got these images. They're definitely on par in terms of general style."
"I have to give kudos to Cursor. I'm still a Cursor girl. I think Cursor does a good job of building harnesses for all of these models."
"When you see this URL ending on vercel.sh, this is basically running on the production grade CDN on the production grade rendering infrastructure, hosting infrastructure."
"I get the latest code across all these directories on the left-hand side of my VS Code"
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"When you use sub agents, it will spin up three different agents and each of those agents can have their own persona... I found really good results with this kind of framework"
"I have to give kudos to Cursor. I'm still a Cursor girl. I think Cursor does a good job of building harnesses for all of these models."
"So I'm going to swap over to Cursor here. I have in this just like your classic plans folder."
"Cursor has background agents. You know everything has you you codeex you can kick off online."
"In VS Code in cursor and whatever your IDE is, loading a project at the multi-repo level is really important."
"Multi-person collaboration, multi-player collaboration in a way that prompting code in something like a Codex or a Cursor or Claude Code really isn't built for."
"what percentage of our engineers are using Cursor? Do we have power users?"
"Cursor is my favorite way to code with AI. Whether I'm using plan mode to build out an ambitious feature, reviewing AI generated diffs right in my editor"
"OpenAI, Perplexity, and Cursor are already using WorkOS to move faster and meet enterprise demands."
"AI innovators like Langchain, Writer, and Cursor scaled faster and closed bigger deals by getting security right early with Vanta."
"For example, I use this Remotion best practices one to let me import components and regularly create videos really, really quickly."
"I love Remotion, too. Again, uh programmatic video generation. Super super cool."
"It's going to apply all the configuration that's required for both me and the agent to do coding within Stripe."
"We use Stripe for payments"
"Think of it like Stripe for enterprise features."
"Linear is an incredible tool. It's doing some triaging."
"We switched to Linear last year"
"So now from our chat, you can look at what's happening in GitHub, you can look at what's happening in Linear, you can look at what's happening in Granola."
"I truly wake up to maybe 100 to 115 new Slack notifications. I need to build a system to get there."
"these notifications will also disappear on my Slack"
"We do a lot of our customer support through Slack. We have external channels with our customers."
"So, I'm in a Slack channel. It's called Steve Klisky Robots-Clare."
"Let me go over to Slack and you can see me interacting a little bit with my OpenClaw."
"when in Slack in Chrome and hovering over a message that has focus"
"So, I have a shortcut in Slack. If I hit control shift D on any message, it's going to pop up and go off and describe that image for me"
"The process itself of building this was very much prompt driven, I'll say, chatting in Slack and saying, hey, wouldn't it be nice if we had a hub for this"
"imagine triggering a task like this from your phone, from Slack, from v0.app"
"I did that via Jarvis, my OpenClaw. So, all of this data is tracked in Slack via these timestamps."
"I think of my OpenClaw agents as employees and I would never go into their email and be like how are they doing their work."
"So Sylvie is the OpenClaw who I've focused on homeschool content, curriculum generation, logging. She only has access to this family learning vault."
"I just take a picture of a snippet of that book and then I ask it to use Nano Banana Pro and I gave it the API key for that specific image generation model to my OpenClaw."
"OpenClaw finally allows me to get to because it's actually doing the heavy lifting... I want to be able to take photos of a lesson that I do and then just upload them and have the actual OpenClaw log the full lesson contents."
"Open Claw now named OpenClaw came out and everybody's like so mystified. They're like it's working overnight and it's doing all this stuff for me."
"Perplexity computer can access it in the browser. It has all the different models, so it should also be able to visually recognize and then understand what I'm putting back and forth."
"I use a bunch of custom Claude Code commands to help me do stuff"
"deploy into Kubernetes using our different images"
"all the different repos along the left-hand side of my VS Code"
"I get the latest code across all these directories on the left-hand side of my VS Code"
"we have a whole bunch of Confluence pages about how to deploy into Kubernetes"
"And the best news, it's already built into Jira Confluence and Jira Service Management paid subscriptions."
"It's already built into Jira Confluence and Jira Service Management paid subscriptions."
"What Pylon allows us to do is looking at a really long Slack thread, it can help you generate a help article. The main thing with Pylon is that everything is kind of just like in one interface."
"I just said, 'Help me figure out a way to pull the latest main branches into my local repos.' And it just did it in one shot."
"Every day my Claude gets a little bit better at helping me manage my time, helping me do work because it is observing what is really happening."
"I just made a skill called recording on. And basically when I do that, Claude, anytime it's going to pull up any identifying information, it just changes it before it puts it on my screen."
"we're going to ask Claude to help plan it. And along the way, it's going to interact with a bunch of different real third-party services"
"So you have actually named your clouds and then you give them instructions to listen to each other."
"I keep one Claude chat available here that is just all the feature ideas and I've given it a prompt to basically rank it in terms of time it'll think to build and the growth"
"So what Claude has is called slash commands. It's basically a glorified prompt. It has a name, a description, and then some instructions."
"Usually by just telling Claude to do that."
"Claude is very eager sometimes and maybe jams things in there without thinking about the bigger picture."
"I've been building that up where if I'm working with this and something goes wrong, I would essentially hop into the place where I have these skills and say, 'Here's what happened. Give me a suggestion on how to improve this skill so this doesn't happen again.'"
"I've played around with this tool to basically give Claude these JSON files. And there's a whole set of skills I've built around this that Claude code can use to write these out."
"I have a Claude project that has a bunch of instructions on just how to log this data, where should it log, and then I can go in and actually select that project."
"I chose sonnet 45. You can also kind of use cloud code with your own subscription or through API. I chose to use it through API because I wanted to see how much I was spending on cloudbot."
"you can easily set up aliases for things like setting the default model for Claude"
"you could actually upload this to like a chat or Claude and you could say explain to me why the photos don't match the mood board"
"I find myself doing this with GPT-4 which is like a powerhouse model."
"My personal workspace, for example, on Chat PRD is the best demo app. It's so rich in information, but a lot of that we pull in customer insights and financial data."
"Shout out to Gamma for helping me make some amazing slides right out the gate. Great use of AI."
"this is going to go off send that off to OpenAI and come back with that"
"extract that content and send it over to OpenAI. When in OpenAI, we should summarize them and extract three to five key takeaways"
"OpenAI, Perplexity, and Cursor are already using WorkOS to move faster and meet enterprise demands."
"OpenAI, Perplexity, and Cursor are already using WorkOS to move faster and meet enterprise demands."
"It's going to search online using parallel AI to find relevant venues in New York that we could host this party"
"we've actually paid BrowserBase to create a new browser session. So, I didn't sign up for BrowserBase beforehand. I'm just paying for this one session"
"we're interacting with this service called Postal Form. Postal form will take a PDF and actually send it in the mail"
"You can see right now it's writing some playwright code locally which will connect to that browser-based session"
"So this is the new workflows agent. And this is an agent that builds an agent."
"ffmpeg is a CLI that you can use to edit videos. And I use this all the time. I use it to strip audio off of videos."
"So, I was like, 'What is up with this to warp?' As you can see in my prompt here, I say, 'Why is this file so big?' Use FFmpeg to re-encode it."
"I make Warp remind me and Warp will be like, 'So, hey, did you activate your owner access before I start doing this?'"
"give this person whatever role they need to use Azure document intelligence"
"I can connect it to the Microsoft documentation MCP server and then it'll go look it up and that makes it work much better"
"So it's starting to read this markdown file of what this retention plan is."
"With MCP, you can programmatically pull any production state into Figma, ensuring designers always work from what actually exists"
"I have our MCP helper chatbot transcripts. I have this end user facing chatbot."
"There's actually amazing MCPs out there to do this."
"So what I can do is say send all five states signup flow to Figma. Now the agent's going to do is read my codebase, understand what I'm referring to when I say those five states, and for each one of those, it's going to individually import that one by one into Figma"
"The interesting thing here is that now I have all of this in Figma. And so, not only can I do more intense direct manipulation, I can go in here and I can move stuff around in a way that's much more free form, but my whole team can also jump in."
"Maybe we have some design in Figma. Before you could just paste a link to a Figma URL and try and manually invoke the Figma MCP."
"Let's say I want to implement this particular variant. What I can do is I can copy the URL of that and go right back into my cloud code session"
"And then you can be designing in here almost like you're in Figma or Excalidraw or something."
"I'll take my midjourney images and I'll take them into Flora and I'll just use Nano Banana as Photoshop."
"I thought it might be fun to have a deer in a New York City apartment. I got these images. They're definitely on par in terms of general style."
"I will either go in with a mood board in Midjourney and you can basically just copy and paste your images in"
"I'll take my midjourney images and I'll take them into Flora and I'll just use Nano Banana as Photoshop."
"Nano banana literally is just Photoshop. That's exactly how you should think of it. You're just able to speak to Photoshop."
"And it will head off to ChatGPT and get the response for this as well"
"Hey, ChatGPT, explain to me why these top four images aren't in the same style as the bottom."
"Even I do this at ChatGPT, we've created like a Figma page with a bunch of screenshots and they always go out of date."
"I'm going to start in either Pinterest or Cosmos. And I'm going to create a mood board that is the general vibe of what I want."
"I'm going to start in either Pinterest or Cosmos. And I'm going to create a mood board that is the general vibe of what I want."
"Before you could just paste a link to a Figma URL and try and manually invoke the Figma MCP. It would build it and then sort of stop halfway through."
"I ask it to use Nano Banana Pro and I gave it the API key for that specific image generation model to my OpenClaw."
"I wrote a little skill called find icon. And the skill basically says anytime you're going to implement an icon, first go and actually look through the whole project"
"The difference was we were all creating our own repository, our own Next.js instance."
"I want you to document our conversation in a next.js JS web app that shows the back and forth of our full conversation from the very beginning today till the end in a UI."
"We want to build a very simple PRD here for a locally run Chrome extension where the job is when in Slack in Chrome"
"I will say Codex takes its time. I almost wanted it to do a review more broadly and then describe the issues it's seeing... Codex always finds those types of things."
"I want to be able to say, 'Okay, I want a new feature in Flowey. I'm going to build it. I'm going to update skills and I can be confident that Claude can actually work with that and understand the new feature.'"
"And Anthropic released their response, Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.6 Fast."
"the new model GPT 5.3 Codex. Try saying that five times fast."
"I asked Devon today, how much code have I merged into GitHub in the last five days?"
"I use Devon which has a virtual machine in a local environment and can spin up stuff access to the web uh all the time. I use it from Slack so I can appmention Devon."
"Can you build software like this with v0? Software that's going to travel entire world, scale, receive a lot of traffic, but you have confidence that you can make high quality changes within v0 itself."
"V0 is all about leveraging the integration and marketplace capabilities of our cell. It knows what the data source is of this project, it's going to go through the whole file system."
"It takes advantage of all of the Vercel infrastructure primitives even though it has 35,000 of the skills"
"When you see this URL ending on vercel.sh, this is basically running on the production grade CDN on the production grade rendering infrastructure, hosting infrastructure."
"We are eventually going to deploy this to Verscell. Can you let me know when it's deployed to Versel so I can look at it?"
"one table which is like a Google sheet type"
"We're storing data in Redis by AppStach."
"I don't know if your company uses Zapier. Sometimes they're like, oh yeah, we're both a customer and a partner, right?"
"We used Databricks, which houses like a lot of our data, makes that usable. And so they built this whole series of things that allows just simple lookup."
"You can tell an AI this is a wrapper around Gemini where it will execute Gemini with specific prompts."
"As I was on Telegram going back and forth giving it, can you add this? Can you remove this? Can you change the schedule? I thought it was doing a great job on Telegram"
"To connect Telegram, you message botfather and you say create new bot and you give it a name and you give it a handle."
"And so, I switched to Telegram, which I use for literally nothing. Um, because I'm an old lady mom, and set up a Telegram account."
"My goal with using Claudebot was to really see how it would work as an EA."
"Your ClawdBot will see it. It will have a token. So you give it a token and then it is up and running."
"You message BotFather and you say create new bot and you give it a name and you give it a handle."
"So what I did and you can follow this if you want to from a security perspective although I think it has some drawbacks on the functionality of Cloudbot is I gave Cloudbot its own email address a Google Workspace email address."
"I'm running it on a MacBook Air that's sitting in on a shelf somewhere that I just picked up that no one was using."
"Claudebot is an open-source AI agent that you can install on a virtual machine or on a desktop or laptop that you have access to that is self-learning, can spin up sub agents using Claude code and other agent harnesses and can do in my lived experience a lot of damage."
"Hey Paulie, can you please join my Riverside FM podcast?"
"So I use one password which is a password and secret sharing kind of app. I made a vault that's called Claude. Claude only has access. Claudebot only has access to that vault."
"if I type H, this will be haiku. It'll be much faster but not quite as smart"
"They have what are called mermaid diagrams. This is a way of visualizing database operations and it's a way of essentially compressing your application down into very small lines of text that show how your application works."
"Yesterday, I used the Xbox Game Bar thing to record a video off my screen. Well, for 10 minutes of video, this thing recorded a 1.7 GB file."
"I have always said you should invest in the GitHub desktop experience. It is a version of this. It's what I use all the time to manage my work across branches and across files."
"Hillary has shown us she uses Obsidian hooked up to her claude code hooked up to her calendar"
"Some of us are like notion boys where we want like tables and pages and linked assets and combon boards and all this stuff."
"it's going to then use the Figma MCP server in a different way. This one allows it to take stuff that's currently within the Figma document and automatically transform that into code"
"I just said replace the computer she's typing on on a 2026 Midnight Black MacBook Pro."
"Nano banana literally is just Photoshop. That's exactly how you should think of it."
"I was making Photoshop PSDs for the real olds out there."
"You don't know what like Balsamiq is or like those old mockups used to be like you don't know what we used to have to do with wireframes."
"you can look at what's happening in GitHub, you can look at what's happening in Linear, you can look at what's happening in Granola."
"I like a more content dense site like Hex. Hex, you have a lovely site. I think you did a really nice job."
"And then you can be designing in here almost like you're in Figma or Excalidraw or something."
"Back in the olden days, you sort of had like your choice of like what's going to be my IDE and am I going to use Vim."
"I spent this morning with my designer installing homebrew like like it just wasn't on her laptop."
"And in case you missed it this week, it is Claudebot, recently renamed Moltbot, the Cristian that people are yoloing root access to."
"So, I originally started with WhatsApp, but then I read the screen that said you should basically put WhatsApp on like a burner phone with its own SIM SOS. Like, don't do that."
"ThoughtSpot embedded solves this by putting analytics directly into your product. Your users can search in plain English and explore data instantly"
"Guru solves this by adding a verification layer between your company's knowledge and AI tools. Instead of just hoping your AI gets it right, Guru automatically scores content for accuracy"
"WorkOS gives you drop-in APIs for enterprise features so your app can become enterprise ready and scale up market faster. Think of it like Stripe for enterprise features."
"WorkOS gives you drop-in APIs for enterprise features so your app can become enterprise ready and scale up market faster."
"WorkOS gives you drop-in APIs for enterprise features so your app can become enterprise ready and scale up market faster. Think of it like Stripe for enterprise features."
"WorkOS gives you drop-in APIs for enterprise features so your app can become enterprise ready and scale up market faster. Think of it like Stripe for enterprise features."
"That's where WorkOS comes in. WorkOS gives you drop-in APIs for enterprise features so your app can become enterprise ready and scale up market faster."
"That's why serious AI startups use Vanta. With deep integrations and automated workflows built for fast moving AI teams, Vanta gets you audit ready fast."
"That's why serious AI startups use Vanta. With deep integrations and automated workflows built for fast-moving AI teams, Vanta gets you audit ready fast."
"That's why serious AI startups use Vanta. With deep integrations and automated workflows built for fast-moving AI teams, Vanta gets you audit ready fast."
"Tines fixes that. It unifies your tools, data, and processes in one secure, flexible platform. Blending Agette AI automation and human-led intervention."
"This episode is brought to you by Tines, the intelligent workflow platform powering the world's most important work."
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"Lovable lets you build working apps and websites by simply chatting with AI. Then you can customize it, add automations, and deploy it to a live domain."
"Lovable lets you build working apps and websites by simply chatting with AI. Then you can customize it, add automations, and deploy it to a live domain."
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"OpenAI, Perplexity, and Cursor are already using WorkOS to move faster and meet enterprise demands."
"OpenAI, Perplexity, and Cursor are already using WorkOS to move faster and meet enterprise demands."
"Optimizely Opel gives you back with AI agents that handle real marketing workflows"
"Rippling is a unified platform that lets startups run HR, payroll, IT, and finance in one system"
"Meet Rovo, your AI teammate. Connecting knowledge, people, and workflows so teams can work smarter and move faster."
"Meet Rovo, your AI teammate, connecting knowledge, people, and workflows so teams can work smarter and move faster."
"Most marketing teams aren't short on ideas, but what they are short on is time. And that's exactly what Optimizely Opal gives you back with AI agents that handle real marketing workflows."
"This episode is brought to you by Optimizely. Most marketing teams aren't short on ideas, but what they are short on is time. And that's exactly what Optimizely Opel gives you back with AI agents that handle real marketing workflows."
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"Meet Robo, your AI teammate. connecting knowledge, people, and workflows so teams can work smarter and move faster."