Bytes

For a long time, he was the one bringing home new tools, showing Victoria what they could do, and explaining why any of it mattered. Boy, was that a mistake—he gave her the AI bug. She stopped listening and started using them herself.

Sam has spent years building software companies and thinking about technology from the inside out: what changes, what lasts, what businesses should build for themselves, and what is mostly noise. As a co-founder of Runpoint, he spends a lot of time around the bigger questions of AI, business, and how people will actually work with these tools.

Victoria is interested in something a little different. She wants to know what happens when AI leaves the demo and enters real life.

Some of those experiments have turned into real things. Together, we built A Better Talk, a tool for helping people have conversations that matter. Sam built Bouldin Loop around a simple idea: technology can also make a neighborhood feel a little more connected. Victoria has used the same tools to build projects like MAMAHOOD ATX, websites, events, and more.

That's what Bytes is about. Not AI news for the sake of AI news. Not chasing every new tool that launches.

Just the things we're learning, building, testing, and finding genuinely useful—along with the occasional thing that sounded much better in theory.

Because the interesting part of technology isn't really the technology. It's what people decide to do with it.

Follow Sam's work at samgaddis.com and Victoria's at victoriagaddis.com.