Ivy Slater and I talk about the throughline between making art, engineering systems, and founding SkillSaige. For me, those are not competing identities: they are different ways of noticing constraints, composing relationships, and deciding what a tool should make possible.
We also discuss disciplined uses of AI, the leverage and responsibility of a lean team, and why investor selection belongs in the same values conversation as product design. I frame AI as a cognitive tool whose usefulness depends on the boundaries and judgment surrounding it, not as a substitute for either.