Descriptions:
Teresa Torres, author of Continuous Discovery Habits and a leading voice in product management, joins Claire Vo on How I AI to demonstrate how she uses Claude Code as a daily productivity system — entirely outside of traditional software engineering. Torres shows three interlocking systems she built herself: a custom task manager that replaced Trello, an automated arXiv research digest, and a contact library that lets her prompt Claude without repeating context each session.
The task management system is the foundation: Torres built it in Claude Code via VS Code after growing frustrated with proprietary tools that made data portability difficult. Claude now has full visibility into her task list, can identify which items it can handle autonomously, and generates on-demand views like a sales pipeline summary. Layered on top is an automated arXiv search that runs daily, downloads pre-print papers matching her research interests, and delivers detailed summaries the following morning — summaries she specifically tuned to surface methodology quality and effect size, not just abstracts. This allowed her to publish a widely circulated critical LinkedIn analysis of a weak purchase-intent study the same day it appeared on the pre-print server.
Torres has packaged the arXiv digest as a publicly available GitHub plugin (noted as still in single-user testing). Her workflow is a compelling proof of concept for non-engineers adopting Claude Code as a general-purpose knowledge operating system, demonstrating that the value of agentic coding tools extends well beyond writing code.
📺 Source: How I AI · Published January 19, 2026
🏷️ Format: Workflow Case Study
