Description

This is an Open Coffee for Fractionals session — part of my coaching practice.

Livio Zanardo kicked this one off with a classic: “None of this happened until I started calling myself a fractional CTO.” The positioning shift that launched a bunch of new work.

We followed that thread all the way through pricing, nonprofits, fixed-fee framing, and how hard it is to back out of hourly once it’s in the room.

Then Adam White dropped a live demo of using Claude Code to generate a full production-ready website in a couple hours — SonarCloud checks, test coverage, design system and all. Not hypothetical. Not a toy. Real code, shipping soon.

Stephen Lauck and I pushed on that edge — if anyone can build anything now, where does the actual value live? (Spoiler: it’s not in scaffolding.)

The real job might be moving toward the producer seat: orchestrating meaning, outcomes, and connections. Especially when tools can generate endless sugar with no nutrition.

Other things we hit:

• Replit, Bolt, Lovable, and the growing pile of “almost usable” LLM scaffolding tools
• fractional roles as AI translators — connecting business needs to buildable prompts
• using LLMs for architectural decisions, not just code generation
• prompt verbosity, writing voice, and why longer isn’t always better
• layering and remixing your own transcripts to create content — yes, including this very episode

Participants: David Raistrick, Stephen Lauck, Adam White, Livio Zanardo, Diego Woitasen, Karan Krishnani

📅 Recorded June 9, 2025
🎙️ Hosted by David Raistrick

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