If You Run a Business and Software Keeps Going Wrong, Start Here | Into the Gnar EP.1

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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