Names matter because they set expectations, and expectations drive momentum. We open with a playful roast of our working title and turn it into a real exercise in clarity. Why a simple, memorable name can act like a launch ramp instead of a speed bump. From there, we bring in Ryan Carson, a three-time founder who helped a million people learn to code, to talk about the biggest shift he’s seen: AI as a new kind of compute that lets tiny teams ship at enterprise scale.
Ryan breaks down the emerging tool spectrum with uncommon clarity. If you want to prototype without touching code, prosumer tools will get you moving. If you want to build durable products, you’ll need a power tool that meets you where you code. That’s where AMP comes in, opinionated by design, fast by default, and armed with the Oracle, a specialized agent that helps you break out of doom loops when you’re facing gnarly problems like the Google Ads API. We dig into what that feels like day to day: fewer friction points, smarter escalation, and a workflow that mirrors how great senior engineers operate.
Community threads everything together. Ryan argues that as agents get better, our need for human spaces actually grows. Build Crew is built for that - tool-agnostic, open to anyone coding with agents, and activated by live sessions, shareable threads, leaderboards, and badges that reward useful contributions. We also tackle the human-only question head-on: some work will stay embodied and personal, while high-friction knowledge services become agent-augmented. The opportunity for founders is to choose a narrow problem, ship something imperfect quickly, and use community to turn small wins into sustained momentum.
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