How Amplitude built an internal AI tool that the whole company’s obsessed with (and how you can too) | Wade Chambers

In this episode of the How I AI podcast, Claire Vo interviews Wade Chambers, Chief Engineering Officer at Amplitude, about Moda, an internal AI tool built by Amplitude's engineers in their spare time. Moda unlocks internal data, answers business questions, and builds artifacts like PRDs. Wade discusses the build versus buy decision, the social engineering approach to platform adoption, and demonstrates Moda's capabilities, including generating PRDs and analyzing customer feedback. They explore how Moda has changed the velocity of product development, enabling product, design, and engineering to collaborate more effectively and compress timelines. Wade also shares insights into prompt engineering and strategies for improving AI-generated outputs. The episode concludes with a challenge to listeners to build their own internal AI tools and a discussion about the future of AI in engineering.