How One of the World’s Top AI Voices Uses Claude Code to Run Her Day

Allie K. Miller shares her secrets for getting the most out of AI at work

BY BEN SHERRY, STAFF REPORTER @BENLUCASSHERRY

Allie K Miller. Illustration: Inc; Photo: Getty Images

Allie K. Miller, one of the most followed voices in the AI industry, says that “by the time you wake up, your AI should have already been working for you for hours.” 

Formerly the global head of machine learning for startups and venture capital at Amazon Web Services, Miller is among the busiest AI consultants and influencers in the industry, with more than 1.6 million followers on LinkedIn alone. Through her company Open Machine, she advises enterprises and business leaders—including those at OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Warner Bros. Discovery—on how to adopt AI. In 2025, Miller was named one of the 100 most influential people in AI by Time. 

In an interview with Inc., Miller says that nowadays, she largely works out of Claude Code, the agentic coding system developed by Anthropic. She keeps multiple instances of Claude Code running simultaneously in separate terminals. Because these Claude Code instances have access to Miller’s filesystem, they can autonomously complete work on her behalf. 

Miller teaches Claude Code how to complete workflows by using Skills, a feature that allows Claude Code to undertake and repeat multi-step processes. Miller says that she’s developed automations that generate a report summarizing all of the urgent emails she’s received overnight and a daily morning briefing that runs through her entire calendar, recommending times to recharge. 

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“It’ll tell me, ‘you have four different interviews or six client meetings,’” explains Miller, “‘so I’ve gone ahead and blocked out 30 minutes tomorrow for deep work.’” 

Another example: Every time Miller edits a social video of herself using CapCut, the TikTok-owned video editing app, she exports the video into a specific folder. Any time a new file is added to that folder, an automation is triggered that automatically creates a transcript, a social post and a screenshot for the video’s thumbnail. 

In general, Miller says, the best way to identify AI solutions that work for your specific use case is to simply have the AI model of your choice interview you. Tell it to ask you questions about your work, making note of areas that you feel could be more efficient or smoother. Then, Miller says, prompt it again with “make these ideas more proactive, more responsibly autonomous, and more action forward.” With just that prompt, she adds, you can get started developing your own AI solutions. 

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