Sharing a special throwback episode of Tech Sambad this week! I'm reposting a conversation I had with the fantastic team at Many Mangoes, an organization dedicated to bridging AI knowledge gaps.
While this interview was recorded in mid-July (before the latest GPT-5 and Claude models), the core principles of how to approach AI remain more relevant than ever.
In our chat, we covered:
🔹 Practical Application over Theory: My journey has been less about building LLMs and more about using them to solve real-world problems—like creating a fitness tracker app for my alumni group with just a few prompts.
🔹 Finding Your AI's "Personality": I share my personal take on different models. For me, Claude excels at brainstorming and humor, while Gemini is my go-to for analytics. It's about finding the tool that matches your thinking style.
🔹 The "Wow" Moment of AI: I reflect on building a prototype for a benchmarking platform in minutes—a project that took a 20-person team six months to build back in 2010.
🔹 My 4 Rules for Working with AI:
Make AI part of everything you do.
Treat it like a partner or creature (Anthropomorphism).
Work with it like a "centaur"—a hybrid of human and AI.
Always be the human in the loop.
This conversation is a great reminder that the most important skill in the AI era is not just technical knowledge, but the curiosity to experiment and the wisdom to guide the technology.
A big thank you to Many Mangoes for the original conversation. Check them out to see the great work they do!
What's the most surprising thing you've built or accomplished using AI?
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