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Cleaning up transcribed brain dumps

"Speak into Wispr Flow, for instance, so it transcribes your 10-minute brain dump, and you can throw it into something like Claude for cleanup."

Tim Ferriss

Suggesting and refining infographic ideas for newsletter posts

"In writing and proofreading, I then give that copy to Claude and I say, suggest six or seven or eight infographics, and then we fine-tune the ideas until we get the final graphics that you see."

Lon Harris

Rewriting and updating an old academic dissertation with current information

"So I had ChatGPT rewrite her dissertation that she wrote 20-something years ago, but everything is now current... She was like, 'This is amazing. What AI is this?' And I'm like, 'It's ChatGPT.'"

a16z

Fact-checking and research

"Oh my god, you kids have it good now. I love ChatGPT and Claude and so on. It's so much easier. You need to know how to interrogate the system."

Tim Ferriss

Coding sessions where it helps flesh out specifications

"I don't know if you've done a Claude Code session recently, but often what I find is, you know, I say, 'I want this.' And it's like, 'Oh yes, and you probably want this, this, and this too.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, actually, you're right. I do want that.'"

Clark Barrett

Shipping production code by running 3-4 parallel sessions with implementer and tech-lead reviewer agents. He built a data lake auto-promotion feature in about 10 days instead of 6 months.

"I tell Claude to spin up command line sub agents because those maintain their persistent session over time. And so you can have it spin up these agents separately. You can actually run them from other sessions and so on. And that allows you to be much more ..."

Jad Naous

Coding agent for building the app and SEO content

"It's honestly basic Claude or Codex. ... I use extensively Codex and Claude, and I have also local models that I utilize for myself."

Rasty Turek

Logging into accounts and handling customer service tasks with Comcast

"I actually do this with Codex because it turned out Comcast is blocking Muse. They know the IP addresses or something, so it won't let you log in. So, I just have ChatGPT, you know, Codex, Astra, like log in on my computer, does everything."

a16z

Writing long-form articles, such as an 8,000-word piece

"I used it for writing all weekend and it is without a doubt my favorite new writing model. It beats Astra, which was my previous favorite. It definitely beats Claude. It has an incredibly good feel for structuring information and I used it all weekend to wr..."

Dan Shipper

Medical research and turning interview transcripts into newsletter posts

"I think really pleasantly surprised by how good Gemini 4 did at doing medical research, answering the questions that I had... for something like medical questions, I actually do want something that's super well researched. And that combined with its improve..."

Peter Yang

Coding changes to Native Note, delegated through a Grokbot dev bot

"One thing that's really cool about Grokbot is they're making the Cursor integration much more seamless. So if you go up here and click on your Native Note dev, you can actually see this little coding tab in the details. And if you click on this, it actually..."

Riley Brown

Prototyping design variations in code; editing internal tools; writing PRs from investigations via Nacho

"You can ask Cursor, hey, I have this brief text. Can you go put this in the notification that appears in the top right of the screen before a meeting, and can you also put it in the bottom of the screen, and in the floating transcription indicator? Do all t..."

Sam Stephenson

Connector that identifies her team and feeds data into sites

"I go to where the team is collaborating. I go to Slack a lot. I go to Notion a lot, Google Drive, Google Calendar."

Kath Korevec

Accessing AI agents for clients inside team chat

"I actually set up this kind of Slack-based AI agent for my clients all the time. It's a really, really good way of accessing your AI agents, and this is awesome to see OpenAI moving into this category and making the agents and dots accessible within Slack."

Liam Ottley

Source of team runbooks and guides for the incident command site

"I had it from Notion go through and pull in what are our runbooks and how do we respond, what are the guides, etc. So this will actually open up the runbooks and guides and things in Notion if I want to."

Kath Korevec

AI-controlled document creation and management via Codex and ChatGPT integrations

"I love using Notion, especially with the AI tools that we've already downloaded. AI is better at using Notion than it is at using Google Docs. It's better at using Notion than ClickUp, for example, because Notion actually made their tools so that AI is real..."

Riley Brown

Finding out what Twitter is saying about a topic

"Sometimes I'll just ask Grok, and Grok is famously a little bit more unhinged. And so if I really care about like what is Twitter saying about the thing, cuz Twitter has strong opinions on both sides of the political divide, I'll just ask Grok."

Ali Abdaal

Collecting screenshots and articles about places to eat in Japan, then generating an HTML file of places organized by neighborhood

"Now between my trips here, I have a bot. I have a Grok bot and I take screenshots and articles and I just give it to my bot. I used to write everything down in a book. Now I just give it to my bot and I say when I'm in Japan, make me an HTML file of all the..."

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Publishing political analysis newsletters, particularly one called 'The Escalation Trap'

"My Substacks, especially the escalation trap, because I'm going to be talking about the domestic escalation trap."

Robert Pape

Content distribution; one of GaryVee's active posting platforms

"There's Substack, which I'm obsessed with. I think it's becoming more like Twitter and Instagram."

GaryVee

Pure dictation on mobile

"I have Wispr. So I have three different keyboards that I am rotating between... Now when you do dictation on Grammarly, it doesn't do Wispr Flow-level dictation."

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All text input instead of typing

"This is Wispr Flow on steroids, right? Yeah, I mean, I've stopped typing. I just use Wispr Flow for all my input."

Peter Diamandis

Sketching, iterating, and handing off designs; iterating on linear flows like paywalls on canvas

"Figma had a complete hold on the whole design industry, for good reasons. It's just a great tool. 80% of my day was spent in Figma, both sketching ideas, iterating on different approaches, and also refining and handing off designs, and I feel like that's ju..."

Sam Stephenson

UI design with bot-assisted frame editing, design token usage, and end-to-end screen generation

"As xAI we design in whatever tools we need. We use Figma, we use canvas-based tools, we have our own prototype environments. The designer bot connects through the Figma MCP through the connector, so it will be able to directly change frames and update the d..."

Peng Zheng

Running AI agents independently on local hardware for AI sovereignty

"OpenClaw is a vote on making agents that are independent. If you use OpenClaw with Neotron or Gemma, which is Google's open source product, you will be sovereign AI. In other words, the AI running on your Mac Studio with 256 gigs of RAM."

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Powers Jim, Brex's AI recruiting employee; also powers Pedro's personal 'autopilot' life management system that ingests Slack, email, and meeting notes

"This is Jim. Jim is our OpenClaw recruiter. It runs on effectively like a three-stage pipeline. We do use OpenClaw for this but the harness doesn't really matter as much as just the skills. I have this system that I call autopilot and basically what it does..."

Pedro Franceschi

Bug tickets assigned to AI agents

"A product person will say, 'Oh, we found this bug,' and leave a Linear ticket. With Linear, you can assign work to a person, but you can also assign work to an agent."

Ras Mic

Issue tracking integrated into the software factory workflow; factory automatically opens Linear issues when tasks are kicked off

"We use Linear in addition to using Slack so that everything gets tracked. So the factory integrates not just with Slack, it opens an issue."

Zach Lloyd

"I use Perplexity as well."

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Looking up health and science information more efficiently than traditional web search

"For anything we've said today, you plug it into Perplexity, you get better than a search — and you don't have to wade through 10 different articles and the different perspectives and who wrote this and who funded this."

Andrew Huberman

Accepting payments and managing subscriptions for the OnlyWaivers SaaS app

"It will use a Stripe API for payment. Connect Stripe. Replit already has my Stripe API. I can now accept payments."

Chris Koerner

Handling subscription monetization for apps built on Replit; abstracting payment setup complexity for non-technical builders

"We have this deep partnership with Stripe where we've abstracted away all of the complexity. The user doesn't have to go sign up for Stripe, do the KYC upfront, figure out what a plan is. All of that is taken care of — we set up a Stripe sandbox in the back..."

Amol Jain

Building and deploying products to production, creating presentations, ideation, pricing page changes, prototyping, and day-to-day work management

"I live in Lovable all day long with ship to production through Lovable. I create this deck with Lovable, I do all of my ideation with Lovable, I do my calendar, my email, everything management with Lovable. I build and change pricing page, I build prototype..."

Elena Verna

Building internet/web software

"Now Lovable — we're actually building internet software with it."

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Client acquisition for AI agencies, building reputation through low-cost early projects

"Going on to Upwork is a good route in if you're willing to grind and put in six months on Upwork, and really work your way up, build your reputation, do stuff for cheap or very, very low cost."

Liam Ottley

Getting first clients for AI freelancing or agency work

"Upwork is not a bad place to start. If you are looking to try to get your first couple clients, some people had a really good run on Upwork as well. You can take those onto Upwork. Put your price really, really low. Make sure you've got a good profile pictu..."

Liam Ottley

Deploying and hosting the app

"I have all my projects right now in Vercel, so I'm going to go ahead and deploy the app to Vercel too... You can always go to Vercel and sign up for an account, and the first couple websites you publish is free. So you don't even have to pay any money to ho..."

Peter Yang

Accessing Jev immediately without waiting for the waitlist

"If you want instant access to Jev, you can go to the Vercel gateway and they have Jev available on it right away. So you can just instantly start testing it out. They've added some stuff into their AI package so you can start messing around with it."

Ryan Vogel

Coding agents and AI-assisted development workflows internally at ClickHouse

"Our Anthropic spend is up 100 times from what it was at the beginning of the year. I sent an email to the company and the subject was 'the AI awakening' and I said I think we're moving too slowly and I'm not seeing the adoption of these coding applications ..."

Aaron Katz

Business logic automation, workflow automation, coding agents

"We're using OpenAI, using Anthropic. We're going to increasingly use open source models to save money... we don't today have a budget constraint on our Anthropic contract. I think we're spending like probably 5 million a year or something. Ramping pretty fa..."

Ryan Petersen