Tech Wing Bites: Fire Talk 🔥

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit techwingman.substack.com The world is changing fast: OpenAI and Anthropic are moving beyond software and into the consulting work surrounding it. Their agents and forward-deployed engineers may bring powerful expertise into small businesses, but they also arrive with platform incentives, preferred ecosystems and requests for deep access...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit techwingman.substack.com AI agents can answer questions, run workflows, use tools, coordinate other agents, and act with less supervision in 2026. None of that will matter if the system is aimed at work the business never needed or desired. We had a big group in this one, Tony, Keven, Cap, Mike and I dive into the 5 types of AI agents a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit techwingman.substack.com AI can write the code, test the system, review the changes, and tell you everything passed. That convenience makes it dangerously easy to stop looking closely. In this episode, David, Egan, Nate and I discussed when the model misses context, ignores the instructions, or confidently approves the wrong thing, the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit techwingman.substack.com AI gives builders more leverage across security, learning, healthcare, energy, and execution. It does not remove the need for judgment, testing, or responsibility. In this episode, David, Tony, Egan, and I explored ways we can use AI in a positive manner as we tried to ignore the news about mythos. Fire Talk 🔥...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit techwingman.substack.com It has started and builders missed it as always—historically proven. What are builders really building for? The conversation begins with interfaces, agents, command lines, and workflows, but it lands on a harder question: if AI can copy the thing you thought made your product valuable, what do you actually own?...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit techwingman.substack.com The new builder problem is knowing when to stop building, protect your focus, and get one useful thing across the finish line. In this episode, Cap, Hass and I dive in to how AI has made it possible to build in days what once took a teams 6 months, and wha sounds like progress is tons of projects open, another t...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit techwingman.substack.com AI is starting to do the work people used to protect as their leverage: code, content, research, agents, workflows, even legacy systems that nobody wanted to touch are suddenly back on the table. But this conversation keeps circling the same uncomfortable question: if AI can do more of the execution, what are yo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit techwingman.substack.com Look, most stuck projects are not waiting on a better tool at all, guest what? They are waiting on YOU! To go deal with the ugly manual step by step, the annoying work that you and I keep dodging. The job security workflow: go open the inbox, copy into the spreadsheet, get approval then handoff. The secret sauce...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit techwingman.substack.com AI made building feel easy. That is the greatest thing about AI but it’s also a trap. It can be an energy drain, false hope validator and MVP to production confidence. From apps, workflows and polished writing fast enough to make a believer in you. But if you don’t know what good looks like, AI can help you ship...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit techwingman.substack.com No one will argue that AI is entering into our daily lives—could it be the villain? Is it too much, too soon. From smart glasses, health tracking, home devices, creative tools, body upgrades, and the hot topic of AI Assistants. I just wonder if we trust it enough for this or do we have a choice? In this episode,...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit techwingman.substack.com AI chips sound like a hardware alone story, but this conversation made me come up with even more questions: who pays for the power, infrastructure, and what happens when the services small builders depend on are running on fragile economics? In this episode, David, Hassan, Tony, Keven and I unpack the AI chip ra...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit techwingman.substack.com What's up, welcome to Fire Talk by Tech Wing Bites. I'm Clint — built software, led teams, now a founder helping builders who are ready to make the leap but can't quite see the path yet. Every episode is one conversation closer to clarity on ownership, execution and momentum. My Gemini tried too hard to be my "c...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit techwingman.substack.com What's up, welcome to Fire Talk by Tech Wing Bites. I'm Clint — built software, led teams, now a founder helping builders who are ready to make the leap but can't quite see the path yet. Every episode is one conversation closer to clarity on ownership, execution and momentum. Is AI actually getting better, or ar...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit techwingman.substack.com What’s up, welcome to Fire Talks by Tech Wing Bites. I’m Clint — built software, led teams, now a founder helping builders who are ready to make the leap but can’t quite see the path yet. Every episode is one conversation closer to clarity on ownership, execution and momentum. 2026 is the year of experimenting w...