Posts mentioning AI, artificial intelligence, Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, or vibe coding.
Imported October 2, 2026. This is a static archive. Posts follow their LinkedIn activity order; publication dates appear only when verified.
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My brother says I collect stinky paper. Fair. Old books, old watches, anything with somebody's name and a date on it. I don't really care about the object. I care about who had it. This one is a Dickens Story Teller from 1884, a cheap Chic…
Read the post →My brother told me a number yesterday I can't stop thinking about. In the past few months we've written 4 million lines of code. Two brothers. A card shop in Sioux Falls. I already know the comments. "It's slop." I spent 12 years building…
Read the post →My dad and I owned restaurants for most of my life. Everything was a fight. The POS. The menu boards. The phones. The website. The marketing. Every tool cost real money, broke constantly, and locked you into some vendor's contract. If you…
Read the post →I keep saying it: agentic programming has changed how I work. Running a card shop means typing the same messages over and over — "sorry, this card sold in-store before we could pull the listing..." — many times a a day. (we have hundreds o…
Read the post →I ran development teams for over 12 years. I loved building products. I hated the waiting. Then agentic programming changed everything for me. I can finally move at the speed of my own thoughts. Idea in the morning, live by the afternoon.…
Read the post →Every card shop shows you what they are selling. We built one that shows what we are buying. https://new.izzisgym.com Pulls straight from our buying system and shows every card that came through the door in the last seven days. Live. Sorta…
Read the post →Recently, I posted about my inventory problem at Izzi's. Here's what I did about it. Tuesday night I had an idea: a way to get more PSA slabs into the store. Two days later it's live. Cost: basically zero. No posting on Upwork. No intervie…
Read the post →I can't imagine a more exciting time to be in print on demand. I was there 14 years ago when it all got started — and I'll say it plainly: there has never been a better time to get in than right now. Which is why it confuses me that most o…
Read the post →Shutterfly just had to pay up to refinance its debt — a 12.5% yield — partly because lenders are nervous about AI disrupting the business. I think they've got it backwards. AI isn't Shutterfly's risk. It's the best thing that's ever happen…
Read the post →Stord just raised $250M at a $3B valuation. Worth reading the founder's note. The line that stuck with me: "9 of the 10 largest US companies by revenue operate physical networks at scale. Physical foundations built with the right technolog…
Read the post →Spent $300. Was offered $40,000 in sealed Pokemon product. Spent $200. Moved $12,000 of my uncle's agricultural products. The unlock? Pipeboard. It's an MCP that plugs Claude directly into Facebook Ads. Every morning I open Claude, tell it…
Read the post →My brother is a genius. He had AI scan every single Pokémon card ever printed and describe what it sees. So now: Want every card where a Pokémon is eating something? You can find it. Want every card where a Pokémon is sleeping? You can fin…
Read the post →Big news from TCGplayer Direct: starting June 18, the Shipping Replacement Cost model is getting replaced with a simpler, more predictable per-card fee structure. I'm genuinely excited to see what this looks like for us. At Izzi's, "predic…
Read the post →As Harley Finkelstein just said in today's Q1 earnings: "No group benefits more from AI than entrepreneurs." And Sidekick usage tells the same story: • Weekly active shops using Sidekick up 4x year over year • 12,000+ custom apps were buil…
Read the post →I collect stuff. Pokémon cards, books, autographs. Bought this one on Whatnot last week. It's a salesman's sample book from the early 1900s. Basically a tiny version of a full-size general reference book — the kind that taught people every…
Read the post →I found Memes.ai and I have absolutely no business being this good at this. Izzi's Gym social media is about to get a lot more unhinged. You've been warned. Seriously though — if you're a retailer and you're not playing with this tool, you…
Read the post →I was up until 3am tweaking our ecomm site last night. Not because I had to. Because I found something that could be better and I couldn't stop. That's the thing about small CRO tweaks — the feedback loop is addictive. Change one thing. Wa…
Read the post →I know I talk about vibe coding a lot. But I think this one might be my best yet. I just built an app that lets any Izzi's Gym customer upload a photo or video directly to share with the Izzi Nation. Here's where it gets interesting. Every…
Read the post →My little MacBook Air has been a trooper. But lately? It's been giving me the look. You know the one — fans screaming, cursor spinning, the whole machine questioning its life choices while I'm mid-build on my 4th AI app of the day. I've fa…
Read the post →I cannot express how fun it is to have an app idea and just... make it happen. 🃏 The latest project from Izzi's Gym: SpellCheck. A free app that explains what Magic: The Gathering cards actually do — in plain English. No jargon. No rulebo…
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