Blood, Sweat & Tokens

What happens when two builders stop talking about AI and start building with it? Taylor MacDonald runs Ample, a digital agency. Sean Davis builds developer tools at Netlify. Together they're documenting a real experiment: can you delete your content management system entirely and replace it with AI agents, natural language, and a thin data layer? Blood, Sweat, and Tokens is a weekly podcast recorded the way builders actually work — organically, with real deadlines and real prototypes. Taylor and Sean code between episodes, then come back to talk through what shipped, what failed, and what they're trying next. Every conversation ends with a commitment: "What are we building this week?" Season 1, "Delete Your CMS," takes aim at the most expensive, least-loved layer of the web stack. CMS implementations can eat 50% or more of total project cost, and most teams barely use the admin interface they paid for. Taylor and Sean think natural language can replace all of it — the forms, the workflows, the upgrade cycles — and they're building the proof.  New episodes every week. No scripts, no slides, no safety net.