Seth Goldstein & Ian Rogers

Let's Vibe!

Arts EN ↓ 6 episodes

Two founders in their 50s, obsessed with building things using AI. Seth Goldstein (Turntable.fm, Bright Moments) and Ian Rogers (Beats Music, LVMH, Ledger) have been shipping software for 30 years. Now they're doing it with Claude Code, and it feels like the Netscape moment all over again. Every week: what we built, what we learned, and a conversation with someone doing interesting work at the intersection of creativity and AI. Not a develo...

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Seth Goldstein & Ian Rogers

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The Permissionless Apprentice — Jalil Wahdatehagh (Visualize Value) 07.04.2026 38:35

Jalil Wahdatehagh built every major system behind Visualize Value — Checks, Opepen, MINT protocol. But when AI coding tools let his creative partner Jack Butcher start shipping prototypes, Jalil hit an identity crisis: "I considered stopping and throwing everything away." Then Claude Code arrived in the terminal and felt like home. From a small village in Germany to reading the CryptoPunks contrac...

The Puppet Becomes Autonomous (Trevor McFedries) 16.03.2026 1:06:37

Trevor McFedries built the world's first AI agent by hand — Lil Miquela, a CGI Instagram character with 2.5M followers, Prada campaigns, and venture funding from Sequoia. It took a team of 9 to puppeteer every post. Now an LLM can do what that team did. In this conversation, Trevor walks through his full arc — from Davenport, Iowa to DJ Skeet Skeet to Bad Robot, where JJ Abrams taught him long-for...

The Art World Runs on Narrative 05.03.2026 47:06

Lukas Amacher — collector, curator, entrepreneur — never learned to code. Then Claude Code happened. Now he ships 10 features a day. Lukas ran the 1of1 collection at DIALECTIC (Beeple, Refik Anadol, IX Shells). Now he's co-founding CONTXT with David Simon — building conversational infrastructure for the art world. In this episode: • The $2B museum mediation problem — and how CONTXT solves it with...

The Media Builder (Matt Medved) 25.02.2026 46:02

Matt Medved - CEO of Now Media, Art Basel Digital Art Council member - joins Seth for Episode 3. Matt hadn't written a line of code before January 2026. Now he runs 7 Claude Code windows and built an AI butler named Alfred. This episode: how Terminal went from "a window where I wasn't supposed to be" to "a window into imagination." Matt launched Alfred on X last night and woke up to instant meme c...

OpenClaw & The Rick Rubin Connection 06.02.2026 58:29

Title : OpenClaw & The Rick Rubin Connection (It already has "Let's Vibe! Episode 2" prepended, so just the subtitle is fine — or replace with the full title) ...

The Netscape Moment 30.01.2026 58:14

Seth Goldstein and Ian Rogers kick off Let's Vibe! with the origin story. Seth traces 30 years of building -- Site Specific, Turntable, Bright Moments -- and how Claude Code became his Netscape moment. Ian draws the parallel to Pro Tools democratizing music production. They talk imposter syndrome, the Oliver Sacks piano analogy, why the terminal is the future, and what happens when a humanities gu...