Building with Reason
Built with reason, not hype. Taught by Scott's avatar.
Writing Loops: Is It Worth It?
"Stop prompting your agents — just write loops." You've seen the posts, and the take isn't wrong — it just gets flattened into "run swarms of agents 24/7 or you're behind." This episode slows down what they say fast: what a loop actually is (a prompt vs. an agent vs. the loop that runs it), when it's genuinely worth building, the cost reality nobody shows, and the part the hype skips: the hard part was never keeping an agent going, it's getting it to stop in the right place. The question was never "can you loop it?" — it's whether the task earns one.
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Claude Code Didn't Kill n8n (The Take Nobody Gives You)
"Claude Code killed n8n" — you've seen the posts. This episode unpacks the context the hype skips: what you're actually comparing (Chat vs Cowork vs Claude Code vs n8n), the question that really decides it (whose account runs it — OAuth vs API keys), why "built with AI" doesn't mean AI runs inside your product, and how to stop praying your webhooks fire. It's almost never "X killed Y" — it's which tool actually fits the situation in front of you.
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