
Episode #1
No Code Changes Needed
<p>Episode 1 Show Notes</p><p>No Code Changes Needed</p><p>Chico Smalls is a junior software engineer in Irving, Texas, building AI features on top of systems he does not own. When a routine model swap changes the behavior of a feature he spent weeks refining, the decision exposes something he has been feeling for months.</p><p>The cloud models are better.</p><p>The local models are his.</p><p>Episode One introduces the central tension of Build Small: the tradeoff between capability and dependency, convenience and control, rented intelligence and owned infrastructure. Chico begins experimenting...

