EPISODE · May 20, 2026 · 44 MIN
If You Run a Business and Software Keeps Going Wrong, Start Here | Into the Gnar EP.1
from Into the Gnar · host The Gnar Company
Not sure if your team is actually ready for AI? We built a free 2-minute assessment that gives you a straight answer → ai-assessment.thegnar.com/ If you run a real business and software keeps going wrong, you're not alone, and it's probably not the developers' fault. Into the Gnar is where we talk about what actually happens when software gets built. The real decisions, the real consequences, and the moments where things went sideways and how they got back on track. No theory. No consultants. Just two people who've been in the trenches for ten years and have seen enough to know what nobody's telling you. We're Mike Stone and Nick Maloney, co-founders of The Gnar Company, a software development agency based in Boston. We started this show because the conversations we keep having with operators, founders, and executives deserve to be louder. The gap between how software gets talked about and how it actually gets built is where most of the damage happens. We're here to close that gap. In this first episode, we get into it: why Claude Code just displaced GitHub Copilot and what that means if you're hiring a dev partner right now, why MCP's 97 million installs don't mean your company should default to it, and why the thing that actually matters in software development was never the code to begin with. Ten years of hard lessons. Forty-five minutes at a time. New episodes every other Monday. If this resonated with you, subscribe, share it with someone who needs to hear it, and leave us a comment telling us what you want us to tackle next. What decision is keeping you up at night? What question do you wish someone would just answer plainly? That's exactly why we're here. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Welcome to Into the Gnar 01:22 Team Autonomy Moment 03:26 AI Fluency Program 05:20 News Claude Code Wins 09:46 News MCP Hits Scale 15:04 Why We Started Thenar 18:14 Best Practices in AI Era 22:09 US-Based Product Shaping 26:41 Biggest Software Lies 31:24 Moving Fast with Guardrails 36:04 Who This Podcast Is For 38:38 Rapid Fire Questions 42:08 Why a Human Podcast 43:25 Wrap Up and Next Steps
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Not sure if your team is actually ready for AI? We built a free 2-minute assessment that gives you a straight answer → ai-assessment.thegnar.com/ If you run a real business and software keeps going wrong, you're not alone, and it's probably not the developers' fault. Into the Gnar is where we talk about what actually happens when software gets built. The real decisions, the real consequences, and the moments where things went sideways and how they got back on track. No theory. No consultants. Just two people who've been in the trenches for ten years and have seen enough to know what nobody's telling you. We're Mike Stone and Nick Maloney, co-founders of The Gnar Company, a software development agency based in Boston. We started this show because the conversations we keep having with operators, founders, and executives deserve to be louder. The gap between how software gets talked about and how it actually gets built is where most of the damage happens. We're here to close that gap. In this first episode, we get into it: why Claude Code just displaced GitHub Copilot and what that means if you're hiring a dev partner right now, why MCP's 97 million installs don't mean your company should default to it, and why the thing that actually matters in software development was never the code to begin with. Ten years of hard lessons. Forty-five minutes at a time. New episodes every other Monday. If this resonated with you, subscribe, share it with someone who needs to hear it, and leave us a comment telling us what you want us to tackle next. What decision is keeping you up at night? What question do you wish someone would just answer plainly? That's exactly why we're here. TIMESTAMPS:00:00 Welcome to Into the Gnar 01:22 Team Autonomy Moment 03:26 AI Fluency Program 05:20 News Claude Code Wins 09:46 News MCP Hits Scale 15:04 Why We Started Thenar 18:14 Best Practices in AI Era 22:09 US-Based Product Shaping 26:41 Biggest Software Lies 31:24 Moving Fast with Guardrails 36:04 Who This Podcast Is For 38:38 Rapid Fire Questions 42:08 Why a Human Podcast 43:25 Wrap Up and Next Steps
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