Claude Code for product managers: research, writing, context libraries, custom to-do system, more

Why has Claude Code become your buddy?

I was writing my notes in my task management tool, and that was Trello. As time went on, I just started to get really worried about, "How am I ever gonna get my data out of Trello?" And so I was like: I wonder if Claude can help? And that was, like, one thing. Maybe I could just do this better with Claude. And by moving my task management to Claude, now Claude sees my tasks, and I can literally start my day and be like, "Claude, what's on my to-do list that you can just do for me?" I can say, "Hey, Claude, what's my sales pipeline right now?" And because Claude is tagging my tasks, it literally can generate a list of all my sales tasks and where they're at.

This has given me a lot of inspiration, because I forget a lot of things. There's a lot going on. [upbeat music] Welcome back to How I AI. I'm Claire Vo, product leader and AI obsessive, here on a mission to help you build better with these new tools. Today, we have a very practical episode with Teresa Torres, author of Continuous Discovery Habits, which we all know and love, an internationally acclaimed author, speaker and coach. Teresa's gonna show us how she uses Claude Code for basically everything, but especially to manage her huge to-do list, all the information she needs to do a great job, and builds a giant contacts library so she can be, as she says, lazy with her prompting. Let's get to it. This episode is brought to you by Brex. If you're listening to this show, you already know AI is changing how we work in real, practical ways. Brex is bringing that same power to finance. Brex is the intelligent finance platform built for founders. With autonomous agents running in the background, your finance stack basically runs itself. Cards are issued, expenses are filed, and fraud is stopped in real time, without you having to think about it. Add Brex's banking solution with a high-yield treasury account, and you've got a system that helps you spend smarter, move faster, and scale with confidence. One in three startups in the US already runs on Brex. You can, too, at brex.com/howiai. Teresa, welcome to How I AI. I am so thrilled with today's episode, because we get to see what I love, which is good old Claude Code in a non-coding environment. And we were laughing before the show, you were just in every directory on your computer, straight in the terminal, like, this is how we're living right now. So I have to ask you before we get into any of it, why Claude Code? Why has Claude Code been-- become your buddy?

Yeah, this has been a really gradual evolution. I started like everybody else, like, literally in ChatGPT in the web, and then I wanted to have an LLM help me with writing, and I gradually moved to Claude, 'cause Claude's a little bit better writer, although that might be changing. And then, you know, I do code, and I mostly code in an AWS environment, and this is gonna be really embarrassing. I do most of my coding in the AWS management console. And my husband, for, like, four years, has been like: "Teresa, you just need to use a IDE."