How I AI
How I AI
Podcast Description
How I AI, hosted by Claire Vo, is for anyone struggling to keep up with the latest AI news, and wondering how to actually use these magical new tools to improve the quality and efficiency of their work. In each episode, guests will demonstrate a specific, practical, and impactful way they’ve learned to use AI in their life. Expect 30-minute episodes, live demos, and tips/tricks/workflows you can implement immediately. If you want to demystify AI and learn the skills you need to thrive in this new world, this podcast is for you.
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This podcast focuses on practical applications of AI across various domains with specific episode themes such as increasing team productivity, utilizing AI in product design, and enhancing workflows with automation. An example includes the episode featuring Sahil Lavingia, CEO of Gumroad, discussing how his team uses AI agents to significantly boost coding efficiency.
How I AI, hosted by Claire Vo, is for anyone wondering how to actually use these magical new tools to improve the quality and efficiency of their work. In each episode, guests will share a specific, practical, and impactful way they’ve learned to use AI in their work or life. Expect 30-minute episodes, live screen sharing, and tips/tricks/workflows you can copy immediately. If you want to demystify AI and learn the skills you need to thrive in this new world, this podcast is for you.
Yana Welinder is the solo founder of Yana Bana, an AI-native fashion brand built with AI as her technical co-founder, starting from hand-drawn sketches and ending with runway photos, CAD files for 3D printing, and a live Stripe-connected pre-order site—no engineers required. A former product leader, she brings an operator’s rigor to her creative process: her “fashion prompt” is a detailed spec covering silhouette, volume, fabric behavior, movement, and sound, and watching her use Codex plus computer use to navigate 3D design software that’s entirely new to her is a clarifying demo of what today’s toolset actually makes possible.
What you’ll learn:
- How Yana uses a custom fashion prompt as a technical spec to get consistent, realistic, on-design outputs
- Why ChatGPT Images 2.0 outperforms other models for fashion design
- How she uses Codex plus computer use to operate CAD and fashion software she’s never personally learned
- The workflow for taking a garment from hand-drawn sketch to product photo, runway photo, and influencer shot in a single session
- How she ran vendor outreach end to end using deep research and browser use
- How she built a full e-commerce site with voting, databases, and Stripe integration
- Why she’s testing human patternmakers and Codex in parallel
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In this episode, we cover:
(00:00) Introducing Yana Welinder and Yana Bana
(02:38) Tour of the Yana Bana site
(05:20) The fashion prompt stack
(07:39) Live demo: generating a jacket from a prompt in ChatGPT
(10:01) Why Image Gen 2.0 beats other models
(11:51) The “prompt as spec” principle
(14:02) Iterating the design
(17:12) Using Codex and computer use to build CAD files in 3D software
(20:50) Vendor research, outreach emails, and Superhuman browser use
(23:34) Building the full e-commerce site
(27:40) Quick recap and what’s still hard
(30:05) How Yana prompts when AI pushes back
(31:15) Where to find Yana and how to vote on her garments
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Tools referenced:
• ChatGPT (Images 2.0): https://chat.openai.com
• Codex (OpenAI): https://openai.com/codex
• CLO 3D (fashion pattern software): https://www.clo3d.com
• Vercel: https://vercel.com
• GitHub: https://github.com
• Stripe: https://stripe.com
• Superhuman: https://superhuman.com
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Other references:
• Ruth Asawa: https://ruthasawa.com
• SFMOMA (Ruth Asawa): https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Ruth_Asawa/
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Where to find Yana Welinder:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ywelinder/
Website: https://www.yanabana.com
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Where to find Claire Vo:
ChatPRD: https://www.chatprd.ai/
Website: https://clairevo.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairevo/
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