Behind the Craft

Matt Palmer is the Head of Developer Relations at Replit and a vibe coding expert. He showed me how to build an app to help busy parents find kid-friendly places (playgrounds, hikes) nearby in just 30 minutes without writing a single line of code. We covered frontend, API, databases, authentication, security and more.Timestamps:

(00:00) The 3 core traits that make successful vibe coders

(02:32) Start with vibe PMing before vibe coding

(05:17) Don't just give AI text prompts, do this instead

(25:01) How Replit Agent debugs and tests for you

(28:15) You have to be comfortable with failure

(33:33) Adding login and databases with one magic prompt

(46:43) Where vibe coding is headed (spoiler: AI agents)

(48:28) Agency, curiosity, and courage: the vibe coder mindset

Get the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/complete-ai-vibe-coding-tutorial-build-full-stack-app-replit-matt-palmer

Where to find Matt Palmer:

X: https://x.com/mattppal

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matt-palmer/

YouTube: https://youtube.com/@mattpalmer

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Adam Loving (Meta) has helped 100s of companies craft AI products. Our interview is a complete, beginner friendly AI course on how to use prompting, evals, RAG, and fine-tuning to build great AI products.

Timestamps:

(00:00) The 2 types of AI optimizations every PM needs to know

(02:52) 4 tips to craft compelling AI prompts

(07:14) 4 types of AI evaluations to consider

(12:06) The scoring trick for advanced AI evaluations

(21:50) Retrieval augmented generation explained

(27:29) Is fine-tuning basically lobotomizing your AI model?

(30:31) Now I finally understand vector databases

(41:40) Why Meta thinks open source will win

(44:04) Adam's best advice after leading 100s of AI integrationsWhere to find Adam:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamloving/

Website: https://www.llama.com/Get the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/complete-ai-course-on-prompting-evals-rag-fine-tuning-adam-loving📌 Subscribe to this channel – more interviews coming soon!

Today, I want to share a new episode with Sam Gregg-Wallace.As VP of Talent at Shopify, Sam is building a radical career system where ICs are paid the same as managers, AI usage is mandatory, and employees can advance their career by mastering their craft. If you’re tired of the corporate ladder, then this episode is for you.Timestamps:

(00:00) It's time to kick down the traditional corporate ladder

(02:00) Shopify's dual career path for crafters and managers

(04:32) Live demo: Why Shopify employees have "mastery points"

(09:07) "Show me the outcome and I'll show you the incentive"

(17:00) Live demo: Employees choose their equity/cash split every quarter

(24:04) She made one video and got hired in 20 hours

(27:36) Driving AI adoption in Shopify after Tobi's AI memo

(32:01) Shopify's "low distraction" mode internal operating system

(39:22) 3 rules to build a crafter's paradise at your company

Where to find Sam:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samgreggwallace/

Website: https://www.shopify.com/news/mastery

Get the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/how-to-advance-your-career-without-managing-shopify📌 Subscribe to this channel – more interviews coming soon!

Claire is the Chief Product Officer of LaunchDarkly, founder of ChatPRD, and host of the How I AI podcast. No product leader uses AI as much as Claire so I was thrilled to get her to demo how she builds a new feature with AI agents and how she’s advising PMs to adapt to AI in the next 18 months.

This episode is brought to you by Vanta — Join 9K+ companies like Atlassian who use Vanta to manage risk and prove security in real-time. Get $1000 off at https://vanta.com/peterTimestamps:

(00:00) Why traditional PM is dead (and what's coming next)

(01:46) Live demo: Building a new feature using ChatPRD and Devin

(05:34) The prompting trick that makes AI work like a real team member

(08:08) Why Devin has replaced Cursor for 70% of Claire's coding needs

(21:05) How Claire uses AI to build product strategy

(34:22) Balancing CPO duties, side projects, and family

(37:24) The real reason product management jobs are changing

(42:43) 3 skills that will future-proof your PM career in the AI era

(50:05) Why we’re entering the year of multiplayer AI agents

Where to find Claire:

X: https://x.com/clairevo

Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4aRP2XSavdtrLG5FZoonOKGet the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/how-to-become-an-ai-product-leader-claire-vo

Get the takeaways:

https://creatoreconomy.so/p/from-idea-to-product-in-30min-using-ai-agents-claire-vo

David is the Head of AI Product at Figma and gave me an exclusive demo of Figma Make, Figma’s new AI prototyping tool. We had a great chat about how Make stands out from other tools and how it works under the hood, including a deep dive on evals.

This episode is brought to you by Merge — Merge gives SaaS companies like Ramp and Drata a single API to launch over 200 product integrations fast. Book a meeting via https://www.merge.dev/peteryang and get a $50 Amazon gift card when you attend.

Timestamps:

(00:00) Building the best design-to-prototype tool in the market

(03:17) Demo: From static image to interactive solar system

(06:05) 3 ways that Make stands out from other prototyping tools

(12:01) How Make actually works behind the scenes

(15:21) 4 types of evals to improve Make's AI prototypes

(17:40) How the "Great Bakeoff" transformed the product

(23:29) The biggest product challenges in building Make

(27:23) Why prototypes are now the gold standard for design

(35:07) How Figma learned from its past AI mistakes

(40:36) Demo: Drawing apps, games, and more with Make

Where to find David:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidkossnick/

Website: https://www.figma.com/make/

Get the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/figmas-make-ai-prototyping-tool-is-here

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Colin Matthews has taught 1000+ students on how to prototype apps with AI. In this interview, we demoed the best AI coding tools for each use case - from prototyping to production apps.

This episode is brought to you by Vanta — Join 9K+ companies like Atlassian who use Vanta to manage risk and prove security in real-time. Get $1000 off at https://vanta.com/peter

Timestamps:

(01:02) The current state of AI coding tools and what to expect (06:43) Text-to-prototype showdown: Bolt vs. V0 vs. Lovable vs. Replit(09:09) The surprising winner for Figma-to-prototype conversion (17:30) Building JavaScript games with a single prompt (24:28) Full-stack app development: Cursor vs. Windsurf (32:57) Our recommendations for each AI coding use case (35:34) Why enterprise players could dominate the AI prototype market (39:29) Can non-engineers really build production apps with AI?Where to find Colin:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colinmatthews-pm/Course: https://maven.com/tech-for-product/tech-fundamentals

Get the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/an-opinionated-guide-on-which-ai-coding-tool-2025

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Sahil is the founder, investor, and New York Times bestselling author of The Five Types of Wealth. In our chat, he shares some profound life lessons that will be a wake-up call for any high achiever in tech and exactly how he grew to 1M+ followers.Timestamps:(00:00) The one thing high-achievers are missing

(02:58) The five types of wealth that create a truly rich life

(08:31) The conversation that completely changed Sahil's POV

(13:38) What would make him instantly reject a $100M job offer

(17:33) Hidden insecurities of the world's most successful people

(19:04) The devastating truth about how little time you have with your kids

(26:54) This 85-year Harvard study reveals the key to living longer

(34:10) Sahil's creator journey and the drivers of his million-follower growth

(41:05) The framework for deciding what to delegate vs. do yourselfWhere to find Sahil:YouTube:  @Sahil_Bloom  Book: https://www.the5typesofwealth.com/ Get the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/5-harsh-truths-about-wealth-you-dont-want-to-realize-too-late 📌 Subscribe to this channel – more interviews coming soon!

My guest today is Stephen Chau.Stephen is the co-founder of Cove, a Sequoia-backed startup that lets you interact with AI through a ground-breaking visual interface instead of chat. We had a great chat about why the future of AI is generative UI, how to build great AI products, and how he scaled Uber Eats from $0 to $25B.This episode is brought to you by Merge — Merge gives SaaS companies like Ramp and Drata a single API to launch over 200 product integrations fast. Book a meeting via https://www.merge.dev/peteryang and get a $50 Amazon gift card when you attend.Timestamps: (00:00) The future of AI is generative UI

(01:53) Demoing Cove's visual AI interface for trip planning

(05:02) Beyond chatbots: Co-creating with AI in a natural way

(09:01) Context-aware AI that updates content automatically

(11:11) Putting AI to the test to list premium Japanese snacks

(14:02) Building AI apps directly within your workspace

(16:35) Demoing real world use cases for visual AI interfaces

(27:39) Generative UI and just-in-time AI apps

(31:16) Why chatbots are the "DOS stage" of AI interfaces

(45:44) The secret to building Uber Eats to $25B

(54:51) The best way to build your AI product senseGet the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/he-built-uber-eats-now-pushing-ai-beyond-chat-stephen-chauWhere to find Stephen:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenchau/Website: https://cove.ai/📌 Subscribe to this channel – more interviews coming soon!

My guest today is Arvind Jain.

Arvind is the CEO of Glean and believes every employee should have a team of AI agents to help them get work done. We had a great chat about how AI agents will impact work and Arvind’s top lessons from scaling Glean to $100M ARR in 3 years.

This episode is brought to you by Merge — Merge gives SaaS companies like Ramp and Drata a single API to launch over 200 product integrations fast. Book a meeting via www.merge.dev/peteryang and get a $50 Amazon gift card when you attend.

Timestamps:

(00:00) How to find job security with AI

(03:10) Everyone will manage a team of AI agents

(05:53) Is PM well positioned to thrive with AI?

(10:27) How anyone can build powerful AI agents now

(12:28) Three real barriers to enterprise AI adoption

(17:34) How Glean reached $100M ARR in only 3 years

(22:52) Making AI work with messy internal company data

(26:51) Critical skills you need to build to craft AI products

(33:33) Are 5-year plans completely worthless?

(36:12) Glean's vision is to give everyone an AI team

Get the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/100m-company-in-3-years-ai-agents-glean-arvind-jain

Where to find Arvind:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jain-arvind/

Website: https://www.glean.com/

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My guest today is Scott White.Scott is the Head of Product for Claude at Anthropic, and I’m excited to be the first to interview him about the hybrid reasoning AI model Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Scott also gave me a behind-the-scenes look at how Anthropic builds AI products, the most essential skills in the AI era, and how Claude will evolve from assistant to agent.This episode is brought to you by Vanta — Join 9,000+ companies like Atlassian and Quora, and use Vanta to manage risk and prove security in real time. Get $1000 off at vanta.com/peterScott and I talked about:(00:00) How Claude will evolve from assistant to agent(01:58) Inside Claude 3.7: The first hybrid reasoning AI(04:51) How Claude became best in class at coding(08:50) Top 3 ways that Scott uses Claude to build Claude(13:49) PMs can now design and collapse the talent stack(17:00) Will AI models become commoditized, and Claude's personality (22:34) How to work with AI researchers(27:20) Step by step how Scott builds AI product(32:37) Why every PM must master writing AI evals(35:53) If Mike Krieger has brought Instagram's principles to Anthropic(38:41) How to get hired at Anthropic(43:01) Flipping the script on Claude's futureGet the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/inside-the-best-ai-model-for-coding-claude-scott-white Where to find Scott:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottiewhite/Website: https://claude.ai/ 📌 Subscribe to this channel – more interviews coming soon!