Episode 5 – Josh Hart
The One Big Question You Must Answer Before Designing Your Next AI Product
Everyone wants to add AI to their products right now. But few stop to ask whether it actually belongs there.
In the last episode of Machine Dreams for 2025, we speak with Josh Hart, co-founder and Chief Product and Technology Officer at YuLife, about what really matters before AI ever enters the picture. Josh has been building digital products since childhood and now leads a prevention-first insurance platform focused on health, trust, and long-term behavior change.
This conversation is not about models, prompts, or buzzwords. It is about design. It is about emotion. It is about understanding how people actually experience technology and why most AI features fail not because the tech is bad, but because the product thinking is.
We talk about why AI should often stay invisible, how gamification and user experience shape healthier behavior, what trust means when AI touches health and finance, and where founders go wrong when they treat AI as the product instead of a tool.
If you are building with AI or thinking about it, this episode will make you pause. And that pause might save you from building the wrong thing.
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