ABOUT THIS EPISODE
What happens when you ask your AI a simple question and it starts talking about you instead?
While building my company, LocalAway, I asked Claude whether it had reviewed our GitHub repository. Its response was unexpected, funny, and raised a surprisingly important question about the future of AI: how do we know what these systems are actually doing?
In this episode of Technically Sweet, I share that experience alongside stories from my time designing technology at Google and Meta, including watching AI write code in 2019 and building small startup teams inside Big Tech.
We also explore what's happening in AI right now, from AI agents that can take action on our behalf to AI helping develop future AI systems, and the different approaches to innovation and regulation emerging in Silicon Valley and Europe.
As the founder of an AI-powered company, I'm especially interested in how these technologies are changing what small teams and independent creators can accomplish.
I'll share three practical ways to start using AI to build something of your own, why verifying its work matters, and what I've learned about bringing talented people together to create something new.
If you've been thinking about launching a business, building an app, or exploring what AI could make possible for you, this episode is for you.
I'm Julia, and this is Technically Sweet.
What would you build if you had access to the tools you needed?
