Conjuring Code

Ian Varley

Conjuring Code is a podcast about building software, for non-software engineers.

Episodes

  1. 5 DAYS AGO

    02 | Making an Impact with Sharon Klardie

    In today's episode, I sit down with Sharon Klardie—a longtime product leader who's spent her career around technology without ever being the one writing the code, and is now finally in the building seat thanks to what she calls her "AI minions." We talk about Board Forge, the app she built to make life easier for volunteer nonprofit boards (complete with an AI chief of staff named Jordan who tells you the one thing you actually need to do today), which just won "most improved" in week three of Replit's Buildathon. But it's not just one app—Sharon's also running an LLC that publishes puzzle books, building a math game to drill her 10-year-old's times tables, and inventing brand-new puzzle types on the side. Along the way she shares the practical stuff that's making it all work: treating her AIs like a team with a CEO and a QA engineer, having one model write prompts for another, telling them to stop brown-nosing and actually argue with her, and why the real currency she pays attention to is impact, not revenue. If you've ever had ideas for software that could help other people, but figured the tech part wasn't for you, this one will light a fire under you. Links: Sharon on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonklardie/ Cipher Creek publishing: https://ciphercreekpublishing.com/ More on BoardForge: https://linkedin.com/posts/sharonklardie_boardforge-board-management-for-nonprofits-activity-7447123672642895872-wMZb

    43 min

  2. 17 APR

    01 | Cooking Up Apps with Jacquelyn Halpern

    In this episode, I speak with the amazing Jacquelyn Halpern on how she got started with AI-assisted coding, and how she created a cooking app for herself and her family called Lil' Chef.

    56 min

  3. 17 APR

    An Introduction To The Conjuring Code Podcast

    In this short introductory episode, I introduce what the Conjuring Code podcast is all about: helping regular people like you build software, using AI to help write the code. The pitch is simple: AI now handles all the tedious, mysterious "bad hard" parts of programming, leaving you free to focus on the "good hard" part of figuring out what's actually worth making.

    9 min
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Conjuring Code is a podcast about building software, for non-software engineers.

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  • Creator
    Ian Varley
  • Years Active
    2k
  • Episodes
    3
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Copyright 2026 All rights reserved.
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    Conjuring Code

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