In this episode we sit with a Chris Carella experimenting with agentic tooling as the launchpad for a one-person startup studio. He shows how Claude Code becomes more than a code assistant — a writable context and a persistent chief-of-staff that replaces spreadsheets, drafts marketing plans, and preserves project memory across sessions. As he puts it, "this one tool can basically do everything," and that shift changes how non-technical founders prototype, organize work, and reuse their thinking.He tests the idea by shipping tiny iOS apps as a way to get fast feedback: the App Store becomes a deliberate finish line and a market check. The conversation surfaces the real tradeoffs of solo product work — distribution often matters more than product polish, API costs force early business-model thinking, and chat-as-filter (plus voice) is an emerging pattern for managing what to read, listen to, or act on. Listeners get a compact playbook for moving faster: use agents to accelerate iteration, validate with real products, and design simple go-to-market experiments that reveal what the market actually wants.Connect with Chris Carella: Farcaster: https://warpcast.com/chriscarellaTwitter/X: https://x.com/chriscarellaConnect with Optimism Show: X: https://x.com/OptimismShow Newsletter: https://optimism.show/ For sponsorships and collaboration: [email protected] DISCLAIMER: The content of this episode should not be considered financial advice. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Digital assets and DeFi protocols have risks, including capital losses. Please DYOR.

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