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Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur

Release Date: 09/25/2025

Strategic Foundations for Business Growth – Interview with Charly Leetham (Part 1)

Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur

Building a strong company starts with strategic foundations for business growth. In Part 1 of our interview with , we explore how clarity, customer understanding, and simple systems help businesses grow with confidence. Her insights show how the right strategic groundwork leads to long-term success. About Charly Leetham Charly Leetham brings more than 40 years of hands-on experience in building practical, reliable systems for small businesses. She earned her amateur radio license at 13, became an electronic engineer by 21, and completed her MBA while working full-time and raising...

Automating Quality: Greg Lind on AI, Testing, and Continuous Improvement

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In this Building Better Foundations episode, hosts and continue their conversation with , founder of and . They explore how automating quality in software development changes the way teams build and test software. Greg explains that AI and automation can improve collaboration and prevent errors before they happen. As a result, teams can deliver code faster, maintain consistency, and build stronger foundations for long-term success. Greg’s experience across startups and open-source projects has shown him one simple truth: quality can’t be bolted on at the end—it must be built into...

Bridging the Gap Between Product and Development: Building Better Foundations with Greg Lind

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In part one of this Building Better Foundations interview, hosts and talk with , founder of and , about bridging the gap in software development through AI, automation, and collaboration. Greg shares how modern teams can overcome silos, strengthen communication, and build transparency into their workflows — creating stronger, more adaptive foundations for success in today’s fast-paced, AI-driven world. “We wanted to bring developers and product managers into one tool—so they could build together rather than as two separate teams.” — Greg Lind About the Guest —...

WordPress SEO for Developers: Tools vs. Building Your Own with Wes Towers (Part 2)

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In this follow-up episode of Building Better Developers, Wes Towers returns to share his hands-on approach to WordPress SEO for developers. From choosing lean tools like Kadence and Rank Math to using AI for faster content creation, Wes explains how developers can simplify design, speed up performance, and stay visible in an AI-driven search world. Key Idea: Smart WordPress SEO for developers isn’t about more plugins—it’s about clarity, speed, and content that stands out across search and AI platforms. About the Guest — Wes Towers Wes Towers is the founder of Uplift...

Niching for Developers: Lessons from Wes Towers (Part 1)

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In this Building Better Foundations episode, Rob Broadhead and Michael Meloche talk with Wes Towers of Uplift360, a Melbourne-based digital agency serving the construction and trades industry. The discussion centers on niching for developers—how focusing on a specific audience helps software teams and agencies communicate better, deliver faster, and build lasting client trust. Key Idea: Niching for developers isn’t about limiting opportunities — it’s about amplifying your expertise and clarity in the markets that need you most. About the Guest — Wes Towers Wes...

Strong Foundations Start with Strong Requirements

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In this episode of Building Better Developers, hosts and revisit one of the most essential pillars of software development — requirements gathering. As part of the Building Better Foundations season, this discussion dives deep into why strong requirements are not just documentation — they’re the blueprint of success for every software project. From Classroom Rules to Real-World Clarity Rob opens the discussion by highlighting a gap many developers face: they’re trained to solve problems, but not to define them. In classrooms and coding bootcamps, students are handed...

Vibe Coding Is Changing the Way Developers Build Software

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In this episode of Building Better Foundations on the Building Better Developers podcast, hosts and explore one of today’s fastest-growing software trends—vibe coding. Vibe coding blends human creativity with artificial intelligence, allowing developers to describe what they need and let AI generate code in real time. It’s a revolutionary idea that promises speed, flexibility, and innovation—but it also raises new questions about structure, consistency, and long-term maintainability. What Exactly Is Vibe Coding? At its core, vibe coding means coding collaboratively...

Refining the Remote Hiring Process with Agustin Morrone of Vintti (Part 2)

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In this episode of Building Better Developers, hosts and continue their conversation with , CEO and co-founder of , a company improving the remote hiring process for U.S. and Canadian businesses across Latin America. From his base in Barcelona, Agustin explains how Vintti combines AI, automation, and cultural alignment to build remote teams faster while keeping people at the center. Vintti’s mission remains clear: help companies hire top Latin American talent in under 21 days, saving up to 60 percent on payroll while maintaining quality and trust. In Part 2, we explore how Vintti’s...

Redefining Remote Hiring with Agustin Morrone of Vintti (Part 1)

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In this episode of Building Better Developers, hosts and speak with , CEO and co-founder of . The company helps U.S. and Canadian businesses master remote hiring across Latin America. From Barcelona, Morrone shares how his bootstrapped startup is growing fast while staying true to its people-first culture. Vintti’s mission is simple yet bold. The team helps companies build remote Latin American teams in less than 21 days. They often save clients up to 60% on payroll costs. More importantly, they deliver strong talent that fits culturally and professionally. Morrone’s vision redefines...

Branding and Marketing Fundamentals with Kevin Adelsberger

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In this continuation of the Building Better Developers interview series, —owner of —returns to explore how businesses can refine their identity and message once the foundation is set. This episode focuses on branding and marketing fundamentals, uncovering what really drives connection, credibility, and growth. “Thinking about your brand and overall messaging is more important than color or font,” Kevin explains. “If your brand feels disconnected, no color will fix that.” The conversation moves beyond logos and design to the deeper work of communicating who you are and what...

More Episodes

Season 25 of Building Better Developers with AI wraps up with a conversation that is purely human.

For over thirty episodes, Rob Broadhead and Michael Meloche used AI to revisit past seasons, uncover new talking points, and spark fresh discussions. For the finale they chose a different path, closing the season without digital assistance.

This final episode is a straightforward, human-led reflection on what we learned from months of collaboration with AI: the insights gained, the surprises uncovered, and the lessons that will shape future seasons.

How the AI-Assisted Podcast Worked

Throughout the season, AI served as an idea partner.

Using past episode titles and show notes, we asked large-language models to highlight themes, surface overlooked connections, and suggest new topics.

The process felt less like automation and more like collaboration—AI proposed possibilities, we debated them, and together we refined each conversation.

Key Insight: Treat AI as a partner that expands your thinking, not a shortcut that replaces it.

Key Takeaways from our AI-Assisted Podcast Experimentation

1. Clear Prompts Create Better Results

A successful AI-assisted podcast depends on clear, focused questions. Breaking large tasks into small, specific prompts produced the most relevant and useful responses.

2. Feedback Loops Improve Quality

We quickly learned that saving strong outputs, rejecting weak ones, and resetting context when needed steadily improved the AI’s suggestions from one episode to the next.

3. Human Judgment Still Leads

AI delivered outlines and surprising cross-episode links, but final editorial control stayed with us. Only the hosts can decide what truly resonates with listeners.

Reality Check: AI can offer insight, but only humans can decide what truly matters.

Surprises Along the Way

Fresh angles on familiar topics. AI revealed links between older episodes that we hadn’t noticed before, pointing out recurring themes, complementary ideas, and even follow-up questions we never realized were related.

Faster prep with solid structure. By generating draft outlines and well-structured talking points, AI significantly reduced the hours we normally spend preparing each episode, giving us more time to refine our ideas and plan engaging discussions—without sacrificing depth or quality.

Occasional misfires. At times the model misread the conversation’s context—offering suggestions that sounded plausible but didn’t fit the topic—which underscored how essential it is for humans to review, fact-check, and guide every step of the process.

These moments proved that an AI-assisted podcast is most valuable as a creative catalyst, not a finished product.

Tips for Your Own AI-Assisted Podcast

Thinking of running your own season review? Our experience offers a roadmap:

Start with transcripts or detailed show notes.
Divide tasks into small prompts: summaries, quotes, cross-episode themes.
Snapshot strong responses so you can reference or reuse them later.
Verify and edit everything. AI drafts are starting points, never final copy.

Pro Tip: When a thread drifts off-topic, copy the best context into a fresh chat to regain focus.

Why the Finale Was Different

While AI enriched nearly every episode this season, the closing conversation remained entirely human.

We wanted to pause the technology and reflect on the experience ourselves—to discuss what AI taught us about creativity, context, and collaboration without relying on the very tool we were evaluating.

That choice underscored our biggest lesson: AI is a powerful assistant, not a replacement.

It can accelerate ideas and surface connections, but the ultimate storytelling voice must stay human.

Looking Ahead to Season 26

Season 25 confirmed that AI can be a powerful collaborator for developers and content creators alike.

Our AI-assisted podcast delivered richer conversations, new ideas for upcoming seasons, and a faster way to surface timeless lessons from our own archive.

But our human-only finale reminds us that judgment, creativity, and vision remain uniquely ours.

As we plan Season 26, we’ll keep using AI as a brainstorming partner—while ensuring the heart of every episode comes from real conversations and lived experience.

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