Announcing a brand-new podcast: “How I AI” with Claire Vo 🔥

Lenny introduces How I AI as a practical show about using AI tools in everyday work. Claire Vo plans short episodes built around one or two concrete workflows, with live screen sharing so listeners can copy what guests do. The first guest is Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia, who describes using AI across product development and engineering.

Lavingia measures the opportunity by asking whether work that once took two weeks can be completed in two hours—a roughly 40-fold speed increase. He treats that as an optimistic target after removing bottlenecks, not as a guarantee that every task will speed up by that amount. His example of a contractor invitation page shows the conventional path: a product issue becomes a written specification, moves through design and engineering, and can take about two weeks even when the change is small.

He chooses a native date picker as a small improvement that had not justified interrupting a busy engineer. The proposed change is narrow: replace the browser’s default widget with a ShadCN component. Because the task is well-scoped, Lavingia can delegate it to Devin while doing other work. The episode’s point is that low-cost parallel experiments can make previously neglected interface fixes worth attempting.