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WI William Imoh On How I AI

“I let all that fly out the window. I gave it access to everything. I looked at my browser window, 15 or 16 tabs open, and gave it access to everything I could see: Linear, Notion, my calendar, Pipedrive, QuickBooks. The only thing it doesn't have write access to is the bank. And customer data, but aside from that, every other thing is up for grabs.”

How I AI · AI Builders · November 2026

“I let all that fly out the window. I gave it access to everything. I looked at my browser window, 15 or 16 tabs open, and gave it access to everything I could see: Linear, Notion, my calendar, Pipedrive, QuickBooks. The only thing it doesn't have write access to is the bank. And customer data, but aside from that, every other thing is up for grabs.” — William Imoh, How I AI

Context

Imoh was describing how he runs his solo-founder company with a set of agents and Codex projects. He admits it goes against the usual advice to be careful about what AI can read and write.

Transcript

How I AI Around 26:59 into the episode
William Imoh

…a conversation about that. But at the end of the day, it all lives on the talk screen. I just go here, I start a conversation with Miro and I just talk about stuff, whatever. And it just keeps nudging me further and correcting me as I go. And it wouldn't stop correcting. Me until I say properly.

Claire Vo

…because it's so fast. So I think we did an episode of Have to Dig It Out of voice control through GPT Live in your app. So I think GPT Live is a totally slept on model that people don't appreciate how much you can do with it. The only thing I have to ask you a question is this expensive to run?

William Imoh

So the honest answer, yeah, but I just chugging into like my token budget, right? I made it open source so anyone can run it. And it currently costs around it'll cost about $5 to chat with Muru for, I think, for 30 minutes. Yeah, so for about 30 minutes, it's going to cost $5 in. Now it's going to cost between $3 and $5 for 30 minutes. But then I'm building this for fun. So I'm just, I put $1,000 on my OpenAI budget and just let folks burn it to the ground. I think it's remaining like $100 now. Well,

Claire Vo

what I'll also say is that it's less expensive than a one-on-one tutor. And you can't call your tutor to your house in the middle of the night and say, I'm ready to practice some Norwegian. So it's so cool. Okay, we're going to do a couple more workflows. We'll get you out of here. So aside from…

William Imoh

yeah um so first of all in sometime in june when we started planning q3 i put together a mandate internally and i called it 100x and this was a way for us to go 100x our current like revenue goals and the way we're set up as a company without drastically increasing headcount and this meant that we…

Claire Vo

critical skill in the stack. Exactly. I just, I think this is so useful. I mean, for folks that have stuck around this long episode, you've gotten like true gold, which is you have codecs for complex tasks, codecs projects to keep everything organized. Grockbot, as you do, this is very similar to…

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