It Compiled. It Lied.

Part 4 of 5: The BenchBoard Build — Phantom Runners, Cached Counts, and the Runtime the AI Never Tested

Jun 14 • Radical Insider

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The Suit Doesn't Make You Tony Stark

AI handed every developer an Iron Man suit. It did not hand them Tony Stark's brain. That gap is the whole story, and it's where the vibe coders have to…

Jun 12 • Radical Insider

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May 2026

The YouTubers Selling You AI Coding Have a Problem

High production. Low substance. And a generation of would-be programmers paying the price.

May 27 • Radical Insider

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Mark Zuckerberg Thinks He Can Watch His Smart People, Then Replace Them. He's Wrong.

Meta is recording its engineers' keystrokes to train AI, then cutting 8,000 jobs. I build software with these tools every day. Those people are…

May 20 • Radical Insider

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April 2026

The AI Wrote the Code. I Still Had To Teach It Baseball.

Part 3 of 5: The BenchBoard Build — How I Bit Off More Than I Could Chew Building This SaaS Even With the "Best" LLMs

Apr 25 • Radical Insider

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March 2026

Dear Xbox Fans: Satya Nadella Just Doesn't Give a Damn About Games

He hired a platform architect to fix a cultural crisis. The financial data explains why, and why that thinking will kill the brand.

Mar 30 • Radical Insider

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Don't Let a Dentist Talk Your Kid Out of Learning to Code

Hey. Before we get into this — this one's for the normies.

Mar 22 • Radical Insider

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What I Learned When My Daughter's Softball Game Became My Product Demo

I'm 51 years old. I'm building a baseball and softball app called BenchBoard. Today I field-tested it at my daughter's game while coaching her team…

Mar 19 • Radical Insider

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The Architecture the AI Couldn't See

Part 2 of 5: The BenchBoard Build - How I Bit Off More Than I Could Chew Building This SaaS — Even With the "Best" LLMs

Mar 16 • Radical Insider

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How I Bit Off More Than I Could Chew Building This SaaS — Even With the "Best" LLMs

Part 1 of 5: The BenchBoard Build - The Honest Truth About Building with AI

Mar 12 • Radical Insider

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February 2026

How I Spent an Hour Fighting .gitignore (and My Sanity): The Hilarious Truth About Ignoring Folders in Git

There are days when software engineering feels like building the future. And then there are days when you spend an hour arguing with Git about whether a…

Feb 8 • Radical Insider

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May 2025

Why AI Still Fails at Logos and Why Designers Matter More Than Ever

The myth of AI-generated branding—and why real creativity still requires real people.

May 30, 2025 • Radical Insider

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