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Boosting the productivity of data scientists with AI | Bryan Bischof (AI Lead at Hex)

Building With AI

02/12/24 • 62 min

In this episode of Building With AI, host Haroon Choudery is joined by Bryan Bischof, the AI lead at Hex. Bryan joined the Hex Magic team in 2023, leveraging his insights to improve data science workflows through LLM integrations.

During the conversation, they discuss:

The Hex way of approaching jobs to be done,
Why Bryan is over synthetic data,
Bryan's three-stage recommender system,
Retrieval techniques that don't work,
Hex's game-changing metrics for AI performance,
And much more!

Bonus: Bryan reveals the questions he asks candidates during interviews...and guess what? Hex is currently on the lookout for fresh talent! So keep your 👀 peeled!

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[00:00] Up next:

[00:08] Episode introduction

[00:55] Autoblocks: AI Optimization Platform

[01:48] Bryan’s introduction

[06:47] The Hex way of approaching jobs to be done

[10:34] To blank slate or not to blank slate

[11:32] How Hex prioritizes different pain points

[15:37] Challenges of building Hex: chain reactions, entropy, and latency issues

[19:04] How to build accurate and reliable agents

[22:27] The solution to evals

[26:33] How to build powerful evals

[31:46] Why Bryan is over synthetic data

[35:48] Bryan's three stage recommender system

[44:35] The role of data managers

[46:27] Retrieval techniques that don't work

[47:57] The team behind Hex Magic

[50:04] Hex vs. Jupyter

[51:41] Hex's game-changing metrics for AI performance

[54:39] The nuances of developing AI products

[01:00:40] Hex's future projects

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

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Building with AI is a weekly podcast featuring conversations with top AI product builders and leaders. Through thoughtful dialogue, host Haroon Choudery (CEO of Autoblocks) uncovers tactical insights that help listeners build & scale world-class AI products.

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Subscribe to Building With AI:

Website: https://www.autoblocks.ai/bwai
X: https://twitter.com/buildingwith_ai

Where to find Bryan Bischof:

Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-bischof/
X: https://twitter.com/BEBischof
Bryan’s Book: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/building-recommendation-systems/9781492097983

Learn more about Hex:

Website: https://hex.tech
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hex-technologies/
X: https://twitter.com/_hex_tech

Learn more about Hex Magic:

Website: https://hex.tech/product/magic-ai/

Where to find Haroon Choudery:

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

Learn more about Autoblocks:

Website: https://www.autoblocks.ai/
X: https://twitter.com/AutoblocksAI

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Leveraging RAG to tell powerful stories | Shaun Modi (Co-founder and CEO of Capitol AI)

Building With AI

03/11/24 • 44 min

In this episode of Building With AI, the host, Haroon Choudery, welcomes Shaun Modi, the CEO and Co-founder of Capitol AI. Shaun began his career as a UX designer at Google and an industrial designer at NASA. In 2014, he established his own design firm and launched over 50 products. He’s since founded Capitol AI, a knowledge engine and content generation platform that creates impactful stories.
During the conversation, they discuss:

Capitol AI's ethos,
The product velocity imperative,
Moving to open-source models,
Why you should have a social layer to your platform,
The monetization dilemma for startups,
And much more!

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[00:00] Up next:

[00:37] Episode introduction

[01:45] Autoblocks: AI Optimization Platform

[02:38] Shaun's introduction

[04:36] The role of design in Shaun's life

[08:38] Capitol AI's ethos

[11:24] How to stand out in a radical space

[16:47] The product velocity imperative

[19:19] David vs. Goliath in AI

[21:34] How to benefit from feedback

[24:31] Shaun's advice for building with AI

[28:29] Moving to open-source models

[30:59] Why you should add a social layer to your platform

[34:17] The monetization dilemma for startups

[35:50] Sneak peek into Capitol AI

[39:18] The exciting future of GenAI

[43:14] Shaun's hottest AI take

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

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Subscribe to Building With AI:

Website: https://www.autoblocks.ai/bwai
X: https://twitter.com/buildingwith_ai

Where to find Shaun Modi:

Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaunmodi/
X: https://twitter.com/ShaunModi

Learn more about Capitol AI:

Website: https://www.capitol.ai
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/capitolai/
X: https://twitter.com/usecapitol
Capitol's demo: https://www.capitol.ai/story/0cbf7b6e-8ab2-4e91-b96d-7e677e7283dd

Where to find Haroon Choudery:

Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haroonchoudery/
X: https://twitter.com/haroonchoudery

Learn more about Autoblocks:

Website: https://www.autoblocks.ai/
X: https://twitter.com/AutoblocksAI

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Helping companies seize the business opportunity of AI | Greg Kamradt (Data Indy)

Building With AI

11/05/23 • 35 min

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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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 Greg Kamradt:

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

Learn more about Data Indy:

X: https://x.com/DataIndependent
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DataIndependent

Where to find Haroon Choudery:

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

Learn more about Autoblocks:

Website: https://www.autoblocks.ai
X: https://x.com/AutoblocksAI

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Democratizing personal assistants with AI | Omar Shaya (Founder of MultiOn)

Building With AI

11/12/23 • 29 min

In this episode of Building with AI, host Haroon Choudery sits with Omar Shaya, the founder of MultiOn, a personal AI assistant that democratizes access to AI. In the episode, Omar talks about his background at Microsoft and Facebook AI teams, and how these experiences led to the creation of MultiOn.

During the conversation, they discuss:

The importance of a user-centric approach in developing products,
Insights from interviewing human assistants,
Balancing novelty and familiarity for users in its product,
How developers can effectively utilize LLMs,
Hot takes around 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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Where to find Omar Shaya:

Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omarshaya/
X: https://x.com/omarshaya

Learn more about MultiOn:

Website: https://www.multion.ai/
X: https://twitter.com/MultiON_AI

Where to find Haroon Choudery:

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

Learn more about Autoblocks:

Website: https://www.autoblocks.ai
X: https://x.com/AutoblocksAI

Subscribe to our newsletter, Not A Bot:

Website: https://www.notabot.tech
X: https://x.com/notabotdaily

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Empowering people to tell their stories through video | Champ Bennett (CEO of Capsule)

Building With AI

10/08/23 • 31 min

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

Learn more about Autoblocks:

Website: https://www.autoblocks.ai
X: https://x.com/AutoblocksAI

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Augmenting human capabilities with AI | Dan Siroker (CEO of Rewind AI)

Building With AI

10/08/23 • 35 min

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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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

Learn more about Autoblocks:

Website: https://www.autoblocks.ai
X: https://x.com/AutoblocksAI

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Enabling teams to quickly build powerful AI apps | Jamie Cuffe (Head of New Products at Retool)

Building With AI

10/15/23 • 32 min

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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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

Learn more about Autoblocks:

Website: https://www.autoblocks.ai
X: https://x.com/AutoblocksAI

Subscribe to our newsletter, Not A Bot:

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Reinventing the way we share ideas with AI | Jon Noronha (Co-founder of Gamma)

Building With AI

10/29/23 • 40 min

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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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

Learn more about Autoblocks:

Website: https://www.autoblocks.ai
X: https://x.com/AutoblocksAI

Subscribe to our newsletter, Not A Bot:

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X: https://x.com/notabotdaily

Transforming meetings into a knowledge base with AI | Krish Ramineni (CEO of Fireflies)

Building With AI

10/22/23 • 30 min

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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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

Learn more about Autoblocks:

Website: https://www.autoblocks.ai
X: https://x.com/AutoblocksAI

Subscribe to our newsletter, Not A Bot:

Website: https://www.notabot.tech
X: https://x.com/notabotdaily

Enabling a more effective reading experience with AI | Daniel Doyon (Founder at Readwise)

Building With AI

05/14/24 • 45 min

In this episode of Building With AI, Haroon Choudery is joined by Dan Dayon, the founder of Readwise - a platform that enhances memory retention from reading by providing an all-in-one solution for managing digital content. Last year, Readwise ventured into the world of AI by launching Ghostreader, their AI reading assistant.

During the episode, Dan talks about:

UI/UX challenges he faced when designing AI products,
The feature that unexpectedly became a fan favorite,
Readwise's plans for the future,
Automating "bullshit jobs,"
And much more!

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[00:00] Up next:

[00:58] Episode introduction

[02:09] Autoblocks: AI Optimization Platform

[02:34] Dan’s introduction

[04:44] Readwise's journey

[15:56] Building traditional features vs. AI features

[23:25] Why Readwise won't build a chat feature

[27:46] The fan favorite feature

[31:18] Readwise's plans for the future

[40:11] Dan's "BS jobs" advice

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

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Building with AI is a weekly podcast featuring conversations with top AI product builders and leaders. Through thoughtful dialogue, host Haroon Choudery (Co-founder of Autoblocks) uncovers tactical insights that help listeners build & scale world-class AI products.

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Subscribe to Building With AI: