{"podcast":{"title":"How I AI","slug":"how-i-ai-7304222","podcast_index_feed_id":7304222,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1035b1568/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pen-name","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/43412682/43412682-1743896356244-0f4bd1d0374d2.jpg","author":"Claire Vo","episode_count":107,"summary":"How I AI, hosted by Claire Vo, is for anyone wondering how to actually use these magical new tools to improve the quality and efficiency of their work. In each episode, guests will share a specific, practical, and impactful way they’ve learned to use AI in their work or life. Expect 30-minute episodes, live screen sharing, and tips/tricks/workflows you can copy immediately. If you want to demystify AI and learn the skills you need to thrive in this new world, this podcast is for you.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-08T00:17:19.140904+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-i-ai-7304222"},"episode":{"title":"How a solo founder used Codex and ChatGPT to launch a fashion brand without engineers | Yana Welinder","slug":"how-a-solo-founder-used-codex-and-chatgpt-to-launch-a-fashion-brand-without-engineers-yana-welinder","published_at":"2026-08-17T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-i-ai-7304222/how-a-solo-founder-used-codex-and-chatgpt-to-launch-a-fashion-brand-without-engineers-yana-welinder","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-i-ai-7304222","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pen-name/episodes/How-a-solo-founder-used-Codex-and-ChatGPT-to-launch-a-fashion-brand-without-engineers--Yana-Welinder-e3nc7u2","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1035b1568/podcast/play/124181890/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-14%2F429853406-44100-2-1164e7f5d191d.mp3","summary":"Yana Welinder is the solo founder of Yana Bana, an AI-native fashion brand built with AI as her technical co-founder, starting from hand-drawn sketches and ending with runway photos, CAD files for 3D printing, and a live Stripe-connected pre-order site—no engineers required. A former product leader, she brings an operator’s rigor to her creative process: her “fashion prompt” is a detailed spec covering silhouette, volume, fabric behavior, movement, and sound, and watching her use Codex plus computer use to navigate 3D design software that’s entirely new to her is a clarifying demo of what today’s toolset actually makes possible. What you’ll learn: How Yana uses a custom fashion prompt as a technical spec to get consistent, realistic, on-design outputs Why ChatGPT Images 2.0 outperforms other models for fashion design How she uses Codex plus computer use to operate CAD and fashion software she’s never personally learned The workflow for taking a garment from hand-drawn sketch to product photo, runway photo, and influencer shot in a single session How she ran vendor outreach end to end using deep research and browser use How she built a full e-commerce site with voting, databases, and Stripe integration Why she’s testing human patternmakers and Codex in parallel — Brought to you by: Merge —Connective infrastructure for production AI Jira AI SDLC —Get your tokens’ worth with Jira — In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Introducing Yana Welinder and Yana Bana (02:38) Tour of the Yana Bana site (05:20) The fashion prompt stack (07:39) Live demo: generating a jacket from a prompt in ChatGPT (10:01) Why Image Gen 2.0 beats other models (11:51) The “prompt as spec” principle (14:02) Iterating the design (17:12) Using Codex and computer use to build CAD files in 3D software (20:50…","meta_description":"Yana Welinder is the solo founder of Yana Bana, an AI-native fashion brand built with AI as her technical co-founder, starting from hand-drawn sketches an…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1972,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/how-i-ai-7304222/episodes/how-a-solo-founder-used-codex-and-chatgpt-to-launch-a-fashion-brand-without-engineers-yana-welinder/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-i-ai-7304222/how-a-solo-founder-used-codex-and-chatgpt-to-launch-a-fashion-brand-without-engineers-yana-welinder.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}