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EP 014 · 23 min New

The Mustard Theory

Why the model everyone slept on is suddenly everywhere, and what it means for your stack.

Why AI Ketchup

Every episode answers three questions.

01

What's new

The one or two things from this week's firehose that actually matter. We read it so you don't.

02

Why you care

Plain-English stakes. What it changes for your work, your team, your stack, and what's just noise.

03

How to use it

A do-this-today action. Open the episode, follow along, and you've already shipped something.

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23 min
EP 014 · Jun 16 New

The Mustard Theory

Why the model everyone slept on is suddenly everywhere, and what it means for your stack.

19 min
EP 013 · Jun 9

Red Sauce Economics

Token prices fell again. Here is what actually changes for small teams.

27 min
EP 012 · Jun 2

Every condiment is a market

The new wave of vertical AI tools, sorted into what's real and what's vapor.

21 min
EP 011 · May 26

Prompt like a line cook

Stop writing essays. The mise-en-place approach to prompts that hold up.

29 min
EP 010 · May 19

The agent griddle

Agents that do real work, and the three guardrails that keep them from burning the place down.

24 min
EP 009 · May 12

Ship-it Saturday

We rebuilt our newsletter pipeline in an afternoon. Here's the tape.

Meet the hosts

Two veterans, no hype.

DB

Darren Bauss

20 yrs in IT
Microsoft MVP / MCT

Has built and broken production systems since dial-up. Allergic to hype, fluent in what actually ships.

C

Casey

20 yrs in IT
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Twenty years in the IT trenches. Add Casey's real one-liner here once it lands.

Every condiment is a market. Most people are still arguing about ketchup.
Darren Bauss · EP 014 · The Mustard Theory

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