AI-Curious with Jeff Wilser
Every week, Jeff Wilser sits down with the people building, breaking, and reckoning with AI — from the CEO of Upwork to the pioneer who coined "AGI" to an AI social network where bots wrote manifestos and had existential crises. Wilser is the author of eight books, AI keynote speaker, and the kind of interviewer who'd rather find the story no one's telling than rehash the headline everyone's read. Named by Inc. Magazine as one of the best ways to get AI-savvy. Included in UC Berkeley's data science curriculum.
AI-Curious with Jeff Wilser
Inside the Real Bleeding Edge of AI Workflows, w/ Elijah Spencer
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What does the bleeding edge of AI actually look like inside a small team, before the big labs turn it into a polished product?
In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Elijah Spencer, Chief of Staff at Miden, about the practical workflows power users are building right now with AI coding tools, research agents, and custom automation. We explore how Elijah uses tools like Claude Code, Codex, and third-party harnesses to move from idea to MVP fast, build internal apps for real business problems, and create agentic workflows for research, social listening, and outreach.
We also get into a bigger question: who is really at the frontier of AI right now? Not just the CEOs talking about transformation from 30,000 feet, but the practitioners inside teams who are quietly figuring out what these systems can actually do. From a startup finance dashboard built in a week, to a research agent that briefs him every morning, to a workflow that can surface breaking developments and help a team respond in hours instead of days, this conversation is a grounded look at how AI is changing day-to-day work.
Along the way, we talk about context management, memory files, Slack bots, agentic development, and why Elijah thinks the next generation of companies may be built more like Rick Rubin makes albums: not by touching every knob directly, but by directing the system and the people around it with taste and intent.
Guest
Elijah Spencer — Chief of Staff, Miden
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