What It Really Means to Build With AI
S2 E2 with Shaina, Team Lead, Strategic Advisors, Cloudflare. Sep 2, 48 min.
Shaina set out to create a bilingual Filipino children's book using AI, and ran straight into a bias she didn't expect: the tool struggled to generate images that actually reflected a Filipino child.
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Catching and correcting that bias took her own judgment, not the tool's. She stays deliberately in the driver's seat with AI, limiting her own use the same way she limits social media, without it slowing down how much she builds.
In her words
Why use a hammer when maybe you need a broom?
Shaina
Key moments
- The bias she found generating images of a Filipino child
- Staying in the driver's seat: her personal rule for AI use
- How AI freed up time for judgment instead of formatting slides
Resources mentioned
- BookScary Smart by Mo Gawdat
The book Shaina references for thinking about AI as a child we're all responsible for raising well.