Building With AI

In this episode of Building with AI, host Haroon Choudery sits with Greg Kamradt, an AI educator whose expertise lies in the practical implications of LLMs for business productivity. They have an in-depth discussion on how businesses can better integrate AI into their products. Greg shares a framework businesses can use to determine if they should (or should not) integrate GenAI into their products. 

During the conversation, they discuss: 

• The awareness gap between the AI industry and the business industry,
• The three evolutionary stages of GenAI,
• Ongoing developments in retrieval techniques,
• Potential risks of implementing AI features,
• Use cases of application frameworks like Langchain,
• And much more!

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Building with AI is a weekly podcast featuring conversations with trailblazing business leaders at the forefront of AI. Through thoughtful and engaging dialogue, host Haroon Choudery (CEO of Autoblocks) uncovers tactical insights that empower listeners to build and scale better AI products. 

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Where to find Greg Kamradt: 

• Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregkamradt/
• X: https://x.com/GregKamradt

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Where to find Haroon Choudery: 

• Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harooncho... 
• X: https://x.com/haroonchoudery 

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In this episode of Building with AI, host Haroon Choudery sits with Jon Noronha, one of the founders of Gamma — an AI-powered medium for presenting ideas. The episode explores the evolution of Gamma and its success in using AI to automate the tedious aspects of presenting ideas.

During the conversation, they discuss: 

• How the Gamma team identified presentation creation as a market opportunity,
• Gamma's transformation to an "AI-first" business,
• The importance of prototyping and user feedback for AI products,
• The use of confirmation steps to keep unpredictable AI on track,
• Jon's optimistic outlook on AI as a powerful tool for product teams,
• Gamma's expansion to websites,
• And much more!

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Brought to you by Autoblocks (https://www.autoblocks.ai) — how product teams build better AI experiences. 

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Building with AI is a weekly podcast featuring conversations with trailblazing business leaders at the forefront of AI. Through thoughtful and engaging dialogue, host Haroon Choudery (CEO of Autoblocks) uncovers tactical insights that empower listeners to build and scale better AI products. 

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Where to find Jon Noronha

• Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonnoronha/
• X: https://x.com/thatsjonsense

Where to find Haroon Choudery: 

• Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haroonchoudery/
• X: https://x.com/haroonchoudery

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• Website: https://www.autoblocks.ai
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In this episode of Building with AI, host Haroon Choudery is joined by Krish Ramineni, the co-founder and CEO of Fireflies. Introducing Fireflies, an AI assistant for meetings, Krish dives into the founding story of the platform, discussing its development from a Chrome extension to an AI-powered note-taking and meetings assistant. 

During the conversation, they discuss: 

• Why having a well-defined data strategy is imperative,
• The importance of identifying a clear target market,
• Focusing on problem-solving vs. "building something cool,"
• Determining when and where LLMs are appropriate,
• The use of guardrails to improve AI-generated responses,
• Upcoming developments at Fireflies.ai,
• And much more!

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Brought to you by Autoblocks (https://www.autoblocks.ai)—how product teams build better AI experiences. 

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Building with AI is a weekly podcast featuring conversations with trailblazing business leaders at the forefront of AI. Through thoughtful and engaging dialogue, host Haroon Choudery (CEO of Autoblocks) uncovers tactical insights that empower listeners to build and scale better AI products. 

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Where to find Krish Ramineni: 

• Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krishramineni/
• X: https://x.com/krishramineni

Where to find Haroon Choudery: 

• Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haroonchoudery/
• X: https://x.com/haroonchoudery

Learn more about Fireflies: 

• Website: https://fireflies.ai
• X: https://x.com/firefliesai

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In this episode of Building with AI, host Haroon Choudery sits with Jamie Cuffe, the Head of New Products and Self-Serve at Retool. David Dworsky accompanies Jamie as they dig into the process of integrating AI into Retool — a platform that streamlines the creation of custom internal applications.

During the conversation, they discuss:

• How Retool enables developers to build AI apps,
• Retool's product philosophy (power & speed),
• The importance of identifying high ROI use cases for AI,
• Retool's vision of building a “visual copilot,"
• Completion rates being a great KPI for AI apps,
• Deciding between different foundation models,
• And much more!

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Brought to you by Autoblocks—how product teams build better AI experiences.

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Building with AI is a weekly podcast featuring conversations with trailblazing business leaders at the forefront of AI. Through thoughtful and engaging dialogue, host Haroon Choudery (CEO of Autoblocks) uncovers tactical insights that empower listeners to build and scale better AI products.

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Where to find Jamie Cuffe:

• Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamiecuffe/
• X: https://twitter.com/CuffeJamie

Where to find Haroon Choudery:

• Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haroonchoudery/
• X: https://x.com/haroonchoudery

Learn more about Retool:

• Website: https://retool.com
• X: https://twitter.com/retool

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In this episode of Building with AI, Haroon has an engaging discussion with Champ Bennett, CEO of Capsule. Champ shares his journey into startups with the goal of empowering creativity through intuitive tools. This passion led him to tackle the challenge of democratizing professional-quality video creation.

Champ delves into Capsule's browser-based nonlinear video editor (that uses AI for transcription, creative suggestions, and more). He discusses how recent advancements in AI, like stable diffusion, are unlocking powerful new capabilities for video creation and editing. Champ shares his vision for Capsule to provide personalized experiences that learn user preferences over time. Throughout the lively conversation, Champ emphasizes solving real problems and pain points over building tech just for the sake of innovation.

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Brought to you by Autoblocks—how product teams build better AI experiences.

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Building with AI is a weekly podcast featuring exclusive conversations with trailblazing business leaders at the forefront of AI. Through thoughtful and engaging dialogue, host Haroon Choudery (CEO of Autoblocks) uncovers tactical insights that empower listeners to build and scale better AI products.

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Where to find Champ Bennett:

• Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/champbennett/
• X: https://x.com/doyouknowchamp

Where to find Haroon Choudery:

• Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haroonchoudery/
• X: https://x.com/haroonchoudery

Learn more about Capsule:

• Website: https://capsule.video
• X: https://x.com/madewithcapsule

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In the inaugural episode of Building with AI, host Haroon Choudery has a captivating discussion with Dan Siroker, CEO and founder of Rewind, an AI-powered tool allowing users to locally store everything they see and hear to augment human memory. Dan shares more about how regaining his hearing through a hearing aid after going deaf in his 20s inspired him to explore other ways technology could help overcome biological limitations. He also discusses key learnings from his experience at Google, the Obama campaign, and Optimizely.

He delves into the major technological breakthroughs behind Rewind, his vision for ubiquitous memory augmentation, and the recent announcement of Rewind Pendant, which extends capabilities into the physical world.

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Brought to you by Autoblocks—how product teams build better AI experiences.

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Building with AI is a weekly podcast featuring exclusive conversations with trailblazing business leaders at the forefront of AI. Through thoughtful and engaging dialogue, host Haroon Choudery (CEO of Autoblocks) uncovers tactical insights that empower listeners to build and scale better AI products.

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Where to find Dan Siroker:

• Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsiroker
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/dsiroker

Where to find Haroon Choudery:

• Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haroonchoudery/
• X: https://x.com/haroonchoudery

Learn more about Rewind AI:

• Website: https://www.rewind.ai
• X: https://x.com/rewindai

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