I just want AI to rename my photos

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 30 November 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Raycast is an unusual app with an unusual amount of access: it's a launcher and application platform that can directly interact with all the files and apps on your computer. Raycast didn't start as an AI-centric product, but Thomas Paul Mann, the company's co-founder and CEO, thinks AI is the key to making Raycast even better. For this episode, the first in our two-part miniseries about how developers are using and building AI, Mann explains how he plans to turn models loose on your files and apps, how he's thinking about the security risks and privacy issues associated with that plan, and what it takes to build AI products that actually, you know, work. Mann also talks through how he uses AI, both in and out of Raycast, and how he became a prompt-first computer user. Further reading: Raycast From the Raycast blog: One interface, many LLMs How to use Raycast and how it compares to Spotlight and Alfred Raycast’s iOS app is now available for AI chat and notes Subscribe to The Verge for unlimited access to theverge.com, subscriber-exclusive newsletters, and our ad-free podcast feed.We love hearing from you! Email your questions and thoughts to [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for this show comes from MongoDB.
0:03.3	You're a developer who wants to innovate.
0:05.5	Instead, you're stuck fixing bottlenecks and fighting legacy code.
0:09.5	MongoDB can help.
0:11.0	It's a flexible, unified platform that's built for developers by developers.
0:15.9	MongoDB is acid-compliant, enterprise-ready,
0:19.4	with the capabilities you need to ship AI apps fast.
0:23.1	That's why so many of the Fortune 500 trust MongoDB with their most critical workloads.
0:28.5	Ready to think outside rows and columns, start building at MongoDB.com slash build.
0:39.3	Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of using AI models to rename all the files
0:45.1	on your computer for better and for worse.
0:48.0	I'm your friend David Pierce, and this is the first in a two-part series we're doing about
0:53.1	AI.
0:53.7	And more specifically, how people who are building AI tools are thinking about the AI
0:59.2	tools that they're building.
1:00.6	Basically, we're at this moment in time where everyone who makes any kind of app, any
1:05.2	kind of software, any kind of hardware, for goodness sake, is trying to figure out the
1:10.3	ways to put AI into this. And on some
1:14.0	of all, I think that's silly, right? Like, there's a lot of stuff out there that actually does not
1:18.9	benefit from having chat GPT shoved into it in some ridiculous way. But on the flip side,
1:26.7	there are actually a lot of things that become better and more useful
1:32.1	and more functional with these kinds of tools.
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