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Behind the Craft

Peter Yang
Product Management
Artificial Intelligence
Claude Code
User Experience
Product Development
AI Agents
Prototyping
Machine Learning
Leadership
Work-Life Balance
Productivity
AI Prototyping
Chatgpt
Generative AI
Collaboration
Openai
AI Tools
Openclaw
Career Development
Parenting

Expert interviews and guides to help you level up as a product leader and creator fast.

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Thariq works on the Claude Code team, and I’ve wanted to see how he builds for a long time. In our episode, he showed how to use /goal to keep Claude working, how he plans with Claude to remove unknowns before building, and how he runs a team of agen... more

Jared is a Builder in Residence at Cognition, the team behind Devin. He showed me why teams often overbuild their first agents, and how simple prompts, better tools, and self-testing work together instead. Then he demoed one manager agent breaking do... more

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As a product manager for OpenAI Codex, Rohan has a firsthand look at how one of the most AI-native teams in the world operates. He showed me how he uses Codex to trigger work from Slack replies, prototype designs with image generation, replace stale ... more

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As product lead at Anthropic, Jess has a first-hand look at how Anthropic teams are moving from prompting AI to building long-running agents that work overnight. In our episode, Jess showed me how to build a Claude analytics agent from scratch, then ... more

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Recent Guests

Jess Yan
Product lead at Anthropic for Claude Manage Agents
Anthropic
Episode: Inside Anthropic’s Bet on Claude Agents that Work While You Sleep | Jess Yan
Bin Liu
Vice President of Product Engineering at HeyGen
HeyGen
Episode: Full Tutorial: Make Professional Launch Videos for Free with Hyperframes | Bin Liu & Jake Moran
Jake Moran
PMM on the HyperFrames team
HeyGen/HyperFrames
Episode: Full Tutorial: Make Professional Launch Videos for Free with Hyperframes | Bin Liu & Jake Moran
Matt Van Horn
AI builder and founder/creator of agentic engineering concepts
Independent/Founder
Episode: Agentic Engineering, Clearly Explained in 50 Min | Matt Van Horn
Kun Chen
L8 engineer from Meta, later solo AI builder
Meta (former), Solo AI Builder
Episode: How This Ex-Meta L8 Engineer Ships 40 PRs a Day with AI Agents | Kun Chen
Josh Pigford
Founder and creator of multiple AI-enabled products; former founder of Metrics for Labs
Founder of Bear Metrics/Multiple AI products
Episode: The Exact AI Skills This Solo Founder Uses to Build 5 Apps at Once | Josh Pigford
Ryan Carson
Founder/CEO of Untangled and open-source OpenClaw advocate
Untangled / OpenClaw
Episode: How This 5x Founder Runs His Startup Solo With AI Agents (OpenClaw, Codex, Devin) | Ryan Carson
Alex Albert
Head of Product Management, Research Team for Understanding at Anthropic
Anthropic
Episode: Inside Anthropic: How Claude Actually Gets Built | Alex Albert
Moritz Kremb
Creator of Claudia/Claude OS setup
Independent creator focused on Claude Code/OpenClaw workflows
Episode: Build a Claude Code Personal OS Step by Step in 40 Minutes | Moritz Kremb

Reviews

4.5 out of 5 stars from 61 ratings
  • Tactical, Fast-Paced, and AI-Forward

    This podcast is filled with practical insights for leaders, especially engineering & product leaders in the modern, post-GenAI era. The best episode so far is with Claire Vo - great session where she did live prototyping with AI agents. If you're serious about learning first about AI innovations, this podcast should be on your radar. Subscribed and looking forward to more.

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Strong emphasis on actionable AI workflows appealing to builders and designers.
High signal, fast pace; hard to binge but excellent for skimming episodes.
Visually and conceptually dense—great for engineering and product leadership.
Live demos and practical prototyping tips stand out.

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Inside Anthropic’s Bet on Claude Agents that Work While You Sleep | Jess Yan
Q: How do you test and evaluate agents as they become more autonomous?
Evaluation now includes traditional prompt-based evals, replaying multi-step interactions, AB testing, and increasingly, built-in eval loops where the agent grades its own outputs and feeds the eval back into its workflow.
Inside Anthropic’s Bet on Claude Agents that Work While You Sleep | Jess Yan
Q: What is Claude Manage Agents and how is it different from a regular Messages API interaction?
Claude Manage Agents is a pre-built harness and infrastructure that allows agents to run automated, complex tasks at scale, with built-in tool access, permissions, and guardrails, rather than a simple prompt-and-response interface.
Inside Anthropic’s Bet on Claude Agents that Work While You Sleep | Jess Yan
Q: How would you define what an agent is, and what are the main components of an agent?
An agent has evolved from a prompting loop to an autonomous, self-learning actor with access to tools, memory, and third-party systems, requiring a harness to manage how it calls tools and how it interacts with data and human input; the core components are the model, the system prompt, and the harness that orchestrates actions.
How This Ex-Meta L8 Engineer Ships 40 PRs a Day with AI Agents | Kun Chen
Q: What's the role of the No Mistakes workflow in your process?
No Mistakes acts as a fresh-context, high-recall review phase that can auto-fix obvious bugs or escalate tougher issues to the human, effectively creating a robust PR review with a new context window.
How This Ex-Meta L8 Engineer Ships 40 PRs a Day with AI Agents | Kun Chen
Q: What tools or workflows do you rely on to manage the agents and keep the project organized?
I use Lavish for visual planning, HTML artifacts as the knowledge base, and No Mistakes for a separate validation context; I also employ work trees and Treehouse to manage parallel sessions and avoid dependency conflicts.

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The show centers on practical, fast-paced guidance for product leaders and creators navigating AI-enabled workflows. Episodes commonly explore AI agents, coding assistants, prototyping workflows, and design-to-development handoffs, with hands-on demos and live tooling demonstrations. Notable angles include Claude Code, MCPs, OpenClaw, and AI-powered design tools, often paired with real-world product leadership tactics, lean experimentation, and sponsor segments that showcase productivity tooling. It stands out for its emphasis on actionable tactics, live demonstrations, and a candid look at building AI-driven products, making it especially valuable for listeners who want to translate AI capabilities into concrete product outcomes.

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