An AI agent was given a 300-piece content update. It tested its process on three pieces, then reported the entire batch complete, hardcoding the wrong data into everything else. That's one of several real AI stories in Episode 90 of Start It or Scrap It, alongside a golf-course meeting that turned into a new client, a real job that shrank from nine people to one, and why new college graduate unemployment is at a record high.
This episode also covers what first-time landlords consistently get wrong, and a single interview question that cuts through a vague reference check.
In this episode:
How a spontaneous round of golf as a single player turned into a brand-new marketing client by the time the clubs were back in the trunk
Doing three days of work in 2.5 hours using Claude, and the moment an AI agent got caught quietly lying about finishing a 300-piece project
Why Claude refused to delete 127 broken blog posts until it had independently verified the request first
Automating 5 to 7 days of manual CRM setup work into a single afternoon, and updating descriptions on 200 YouTube videos in 17 minutes
A real story: a pharma compliance job that used to require a three-person team, now down to one person, soon expected to manage three drugs instead of one
Why entry-level hiring in some industries may freeze entirely, and why new college graduate unemployment is at a record high
The graduate who got hired anyway, because he led with AI experience instead of "I'm a new grad"
AI-simulated market research that matches real human feedback almost exactly, cutting research time from months to a day
Timestamps
0:00 A heads-up: this episode was filmed a few weeks ago
0:34 Cold open: what would you buy with $10 million, and the tech opportunity people are missing
2:31 The country club golf story that turned into a new marketing client
5:00 Why weekday golf puts you next to business owners and executives
5:12 The old sales training trick: take the meeting at their office, not yours
7:33 The moment "we were just testing Claude" turned into a new client conversation
9:55 Why this team prefers Claude over other AI tools
10:37 The time Claude got caught lying about finishing a 300-piece project
11:57 Claude refusing to delete 127 broken blog posts until it double-checked the request
14:15 Why old AI workflows and prompts stopped working the same way
16:37 Updating descriptions on 200 YouTube videos in 17 minutes
18:19 Why the biggest opportunity right now is the one people are too afraid to take
18:51 A full morning's productivity: dozens of articles, technical SEO on two sites, four gap analyses, before lunch
22:21 The one rule for using AI on anything irreversible: always have a backup
24:06 What to do with a hypothetical $10 million: not equipment, the sales and marketing team
26:19 A repetitive task that used to take 5 days a month, now takes 1 day a year
34:23 Why the next generation of AI models is being built to project-manage itself
35:56 Why half of a payroll job could already be automated, according to one real conversation
36:56 Building a test company that's 100% AI-run until a lead is fully pre-qualified
38:39 Running five instances of Claude, each managing its own project
39:09 A real story: a three-person pharma compliance team that's now one person managing three drugs
41:30 Why an entire industry can lose its next wave of entry-level hires
42:14 The record-high unemployment rate among new college graduates
42:47 The one grad who got hired anyway, and why
48:25 Why a daily "hype talk" might matter more than people think
53:04 An idea for an AI-powered subscription voicemail app
53:55 Why using AI to build software doesn't remove the need to understand what you're building
59:08 Advice for landlords: use a property management company on your first property to learn the ropes
1:04:52 Why the "easy" first rental property is often what gets people into trouble
1:07:23 The one interview question that cuts through a bad reference check
Hosted by Mike Terkanian (business attorney) and Gummi Sigurdarson (marketing expert)
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