AGI - Advance, Grow, Innovate with AI · 2026-08-02 · 1h 17m
EPISODE DESCRIPTION "In the beginner's mind the possibilities are limitless. In the expert's mind they are finite." Jason opens his new show with Suzuki Roshi because his first guest is the argument made flesh. Bill Mrklas has spent 26 years at BrainMaster Technologies, an Ohio manufacturer of EEG neurofeedback equipment that retrains brains struggling with anxiety, trauma, and autism instead of masking symptoms with medication. He is the sales and marketing guy. He had never typed a line of code, and a year ago couldn't have told you what a terminal was. Working with Claude and Claude Code, Bill specced and built a brain-training game from nothing: breath pacer, live EEG input over a WebSocket and Python bridge, visuals that respond to a patient's actual brainwaves. Core prototype in an afternoon, polished build in about 35 hours, in an industry where simpler games once consumed entire teams for months. His founder, a Bell Labs veteran who had dismissed AI as junk, kept asking who really coded it. Four months after meeting Claude himself, that founder built an encrypted remote neurofeedback platform he priced at ten engineers, one year, and seven figures.
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