8 min · October 29, 2026
Stop Bolting AI On. Start Building With It.
Jason and Sarah get into why most companies treat AI like a shiny button when it should be plumbing — and what actually changes when you flip that.
Sarah: Okay, before we even warm up — I've been sitting on this. You've got four companies now, and every one of them has some AI thing in it. But you told me last week that you think most of what people call "AI features" are basically garbage. So which is it?
Jason: Ha, yeah, that's fair. Both things are true. The features are mostly garbage. The infrastructure is the whole game. Those are just different layers of the same stack.…
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