come see how ai is used for human flourishing and to have more fun.
we interview ai-pilled practitioners using ai to enhance their work and lives.
hosts:
- Eric Tan - vibecoder https://www.linkedin.com/in/erictisme/
- Yaohong Ch'ng - senior engineer, founder of superuser hq. https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaohongchng/
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Why building for few beats building for masses | Vaughn Tan (Executive Director of Tangent)
Vaughn Tan is an innovation expert who had never built software. He now builds his own tools, and he argues the software worth building is the boring kind: very small, does one dull job, made for you and maybe three other people. He is the author of The Uncertainty Mindset and executive director of Tangent, a zero to one incubator in Singapore. in this conversation we cover: - why the most useful software is the boring, tiny kind, and why almost nobody builds it - two live demos, a task tra...
17 Sept 2026
How an OpenClaw agent runs a profitable SaaS overnight | Gijs Verheijke (Carousell)
Gijs Verheijke runs a SaaS on the side that an OpenClaw agent called Maggie looks after with minimal to no supervision. He was Co-founder and CEO of Ox Street before getting acquired by Carousell. He is now head of AI Chapter at Carousell. We recorded this live at Lorong AI. https://lorong.ai/ a note up front: everything Gijs shows here runs on his own Mac Mini for his side projects. he doesn't use OpenClaw for his Carousell work. Carousell's ai tooling is company-approved and separate from ...
10 Sept 2026
He AI-pilled his 8-figure D2C brand with Hermes agent | Benjamin Huang (Co-Founder of Omnidesk, Firstpress.ai)
Ben Huang ran Omnidesk, a Singapore standing desk company, for eight years. Eight figure revenue, 40 staff, seven direct reports, his numbers. In one year he went from pasting reports into ChatGPT to two AI agents that brief him at 8am, pull his Shopify data daily, and grade his week. He shows the whole setup: four text files, an always-on iMac, the update that made him leave OpenClaw for Hermes, and a Shopify POS app built in two days that cut checkout from 15 minutes to 2. He is now the fou...
11 Aug 2026
AI governance expert warns the window is closing | Simon Chesterman
Simon Chesterman is AI Governance and Policy Lead at the NUS AI Institute, David Marshall Professor of Law and Vice Provost at NUS, Vice Provost at NUS, and Dean of NUS College. He is also a novelist. He spends his working life on how law can help manage risk, and his fiction on what stays human. He spoke with us here in his personal capacity, not on behalf of NUS or AI Singapore. in this conversation we cover: - why we are all beta testers and lab rats in a live experiment - the risk he ac...
3 Aug 2026
From tyre shop to AI attention machine | Cordillia Tan (Co-Founder of PetaniAI)
Cordillia Tan is better known to many Singaporeans as "Tyre Jie Jie". with no driving licence and almost no automotive knowledge, she stepped into her family's tyre shop when it was roughly S$400,000 in debt, and helped turn Pitstop into a multimillion-dollar digital automotive business. after five years in the workshop she is building PetaniAI, a home for the AI-curious in Southeast Asia. in this conversation you'll hear: - eight months of TikToks that went nowhere before one video changed ...
20 Jul 2026
Inside an AI-native recruitment firm's stack | Roger Olofsson (Co-Founder of Olofsson Consulting)
Roger Olofsson is MD and Co-Founder of an AI-native recruitment firm Olofsson Consulting (olofsson.ai), having spent ~30 years in tech executive search in Singapore. in this conversation we cover: - how Roger ended up settling down in Singapore (from Sweden!) - the live walkthrough of their matching system which consists of 395K candidates - how Roger transformed into an ai-native firm, removing soul-draining work - why the team is shifting back into claude code after building their o...
16 Jun 2026
Cybersecurity shouldn't be a luxury | Gaurav Keerthi (CEO of StrongKeep)
gaurav keerthi has packed several careers into one. he was a rescue helicopter pilot, made brigadier-general, became the air force's first chief innovation officer, then deputy chief executive of singapore's cyber security agency. then he started strongkeep, because he was tired of waiting for someone to build affordable cybersecurity for the small businesses everyone else overlooks. in this conversation we cover: - what growing up through a coup and political violence taught him about saf...
21 May 2026
We vibecoded an app for our grandparents
This is a secret episode we almost didn't release. Eric (vibe-coder, can't read code) and his cousin Jason (a software engineer) sat down to build a family app for their ageing grandparents. What you'll hear is a distilled 2.5h chat, with a brief demo near the end. We're releasing it because the mess is the whole point. If you're curious about vibe coding but scared to start, this is what it actually sounds like when two real people try. Key takeaways: - Get the AI to grill you before you b...
28 Apr 2026
Global FMCG Researcher Uses AI for Ingredient Analysis
Cosmetic scientists from FMCG companies spend days clicking between PubChem, INCI Decoder, and supplier sites just to figure out what's in one competitor product. Aidil is a cosmetic chemist. He does this manually in Excel and through hundreds of searches in a textbox. We tried to solve that task with Claude Code - live, in 90 minutes. 10 products decoded, and a similarity matrix. What you'll hear: - Why a trained scientist still loses a day per product to manual ingredient lookups - Aidil ...
3 Apr 2026
Luxury Bag Restorer Finally Analyzes Her Sales Channels with AI
Lynn runs Dr. Bags, a luxury bag and shoes restoration business in Singapore - 11 years, 3 stores, about 30 staff. Her team is already stretched thin building a new ERP system, training staff, and handling daily operations. Analysing marketing data? That would take two days nobody has. We built her a marketing dashboard in under an hour using Claude Code with a month of her deal pipeline data. It wasn't perfect - and that turned out to be the most useful part. What you'll hear in this episo...
Bryan is an oil market analyst. Every morning he spends one to two hours reading news - Reuters, CNN, CNBC - trying to pull out the actual facts from opinion and spin. Two articles about the same event sometimes say opposite things. We tried building him an AI tool using Claude Code. It scraped hundreds of articles, stripped out the editorializing, and pulled just the verifiable facts. It covered about 80-90% of what he needs. What you'll hear in this episode: - An oil analyst explain...
9 Mar 2026
Using Claude Cowork To Streamline Wet Market Operations (Live)
Chuyi quit her corporate job to help manage a wet market vegetable store at Marine Terrace. She tracks competitor prices and supplier orders through WhatsApp and spreadsheets — all by hand. So we used Claude Cowork to build her a competitor pricing guide and supplier management dashboard in one hour, having fun while doing it together. What you'll hear in this episode: - A wet market store operator walking through her daily pricing and supplier workflow - Using Claude Cowork to scrape and c...
3 Mar 2026
We Built an ESG News Bot in 1 Hour using Claude Code (Live)
An ESG analyst at a bank spends her morning commutes reading news across Reuters, ESG News, and Financial Times, etc, then manually logging it into Excel and Word. She tried ChatGPT but got hallucinated headlines. So we automated the whole thing in one hour using Claude Code from scratch, having fun while doing it together. What you'll hear in this episode: - A real sustainable finance analyst walking through her daily news workflow - Building a Python news scraper live with little to no pr...
16 Feb 2026
It's Time to Build Your Own Software
I don't write code. Yaohong's been coding since he was 13. We sat down to figure out why we're making a podcast about building things with AI - live, on camera, with real people's real problems. In this episode, we talk about: - Why this moment is important for non-coders to build with AI - Singapore's 2026 budget and AI adoption - The problem with AI consultants selling to SMEs who don't understand AI - Why we picked Claude Code over Lovable, Bolt, and Cursor (for now) - Pains of 24/7 OpenC...
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