AI & I

Prompt engineering isn’t just about telling AI to solve your problems—it’s about knowing which ones to solve. 

Yet there’s a mismatch between the people who can identify the right problems—experts with deep domain knowledge—and the technical infrastructure required for developin...

Notion cofounder Simon Last told me everything he’s learned from integrating an AI application into a platform that has over 100 million users.

Simon likes to keep a low profile, even though he’s the driving force behind Notion AI, one of the most widely scaled AI applications i...

Union Square Ventures is building an AI operating system to support their investment team. 

But it’s not what you think: It’s a constellation of AI tools that captures and synthesizes the firm's collective wisdom. It’s evolving every day, and Matt Cynamon is the mad scientist in...

Yohei Nakajima⁠ leads a double life. 
By day, he’s a general partner of a small venture firm, ⁠Untapped Capital⁠. 
By night, he’s one of the most prolific internet tinkerers in AI. (He also sometimes works on ⁠automating his job as a venture capitalist.)
He’s the creator of BabyA...

Simon Eskildsen is a learning machine. 

I first interviewed him in 2020 about how he leveled up from being an intern at Shopify to becoming the company’s director of production engineering by reading and applying insights from hundreds of books.

A lot has changed over the last ...

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The Browser Company isn’t just building a browser, they’re building a formidable brand—and they’re doing it with AI. 

The Browser Company has driven viral user growth, a $550 million valuation, and close to 100,000 YouTube subscribers. Its brand centers people, not products. It’...

We’re building a mini-AI media and software empire at Every. 

Today on AI & I, Brandon Gell joins the show to turn the tables on me and act as podcast host to explore what we’re doing as a company, how we got here, and where we’re going.

Brandon is Every’s first entrepreneur in...

Alex Wieckowski is on a mission to make you fall in love with reading again—and he thinks AI can help.

Alex, who writes a newsletter that captures lessons from books he’s read and tips to become a better reader, Alex & Books, is a creator with over 1 million followers across soc...

One of the most influential voices in tech explains how AI helps him write and invest.
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Keeping up with AI is Nathaniel Whittemore’s full-time job—and I spent an hour with him to understand how he does it.
Nathaniel is the host of a top-ranked AI podcast on the technology charts, The AI Daily Brief, which breaks down the most important news in AI every day. He is al...

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Dwarkesh Patel is on a quest to know everything. 
He’s using LLMs to enhance how he reads, learns,...