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00:00 - Intro & Smile.io Sponsorship

01:22 - Programmer or whatever we are

01:52 - Dave’s alter-egos and promo quotas

03:15 - Wizard hats and Halloween strategy

05:10 - Token Dave and the AI leaderboard

08:00 - Kalen’s Shop Minis experiments

11:40 - Mystery boxes, swipes, and feedback loops

18:00 - Product descriptions and brand voice

24:30 - Checkout testing and PDQ deep dive

27:20 - Claude Code, Codex, and context hoarding

33:10 - Git work trees, DBT, and late-night agent coding

38:30 - Modal debugging and test automation pain

44:00 - Cookie banners, Nacho Libre, and existential dev talk

47:00 - Hiring stories, fashion jobs, and North Carolina dreams

50:40 - Claude reading secrets and the security rabbit hole

51:55 - “Find the Shopify PM”

52:45 - ShopifyQL and analytics tinkering

53:57 - AI-driven emails and the LTV flashback

1:01:00 - Brand voice and prompt tuning

1:07:00 - Testing at scale with AI

1:10:00 - SaaS vendor therapy and A/B test chaos

1:13:00 - Wrapping up: Minis, optimism, and candy plans