#28 "They Call Me "IT Dave"

00:00 - Intro & Smile.io Sponsorship 01:22 - Programmer or whatever we are 01:52 - Dave’s alter-egos and promo quotas 03:15 - Wizard hats and Halloween strategy 05:10 - Token Dave and the AI leaderboard 08:00 - Kalen’s Shop Minis experiments 11:40 - Mystery boxes, swipes, and feedback loops 18:00 - Product descriptions and brand voice 24:30 - Checkout testing and PDQ deep dive 27:20 - Claude Code, Codex, and context hoarding 33:10 - Git work trees, DBT, and late-night agent coding 38:30 - Modal debugging and test automation pain 44:00 - Cookie banners, Nacho Libre, and existential dev talk 47:00 - Hiring stories, fashion jobs, and North Carolina dreams 50:40 - Claude reading secrets and the security rabbit hole 51:55 - “Find the Shopify PM” 52:45 - ShopifyQL and analytics tinkering 53:57 - AI-driven emails and the LTV flashback 1:01:00 - Brand voice and prompt tuning 1:07:00 - Testing at scale with AI 1:10:00 - SaaS vendor therapy and A/B test chaos 1:13:00 - Wrapping up: Minis, optimism, and candy plans