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Womansplaining AI

Womansplaining AI

Logan Currie  ·  Mara Bolis


Episode 20 · New this week

Shadow Daddy
ChatGPT

with Vanessa Chang  —  Cofounder, Bernie

Episode 20 — with Vanessa Chang

Recorded live · San Francisco

We recorded this live in San Francisco, where every billboard is a sexy woman selling you an AI assistant. Vee flips the whole thing: the fantasy was never the assistant. It's competence.


Inside the episode

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What you missed

  1. 01

    Vee's definition of agency, the sharpest we've heard: it doesn't come from standing still

  2. 02

    Why AI is being "done at" most people, and the catch-22 that keeps it that way

  3. 03

    The tradwife shame baked into "I made it from scratch," and the brownie mix that needed exactly one egg to feel like love

  4. 04

    Bernie, the fraud-catching SMS tool Vee built for seniors without raising a round or hiring a dev team


Know the shit out
of yourself.

Vanessa Chang  —  Ep. 20


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Two moments

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Featured clips

Know the shit out of yourself

Clip · 0:33

Know the shit out of yourself

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Shadow adoption and shame

Clip · 0:35

Shadow adoption and shame

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Show notes

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What we talked about

  • Bernie the fraud-catching SMS tool Vee built for seniors.

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  • Think with V Vee's newsletter. Think with AI, not like AI.

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  • The Fantasy of Competence essay Vee references in the cold open.

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From the archive

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If this one hit

Episode 18

Episode 18

Is AI Just Spicy Autocorrect?

with Karina Alexanyan

Recorded the same week as this one. Vee's protopia closer picks up the thread Karina started.

Listen to Ep. 18

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