The Other Side of the Screen

Ernex Studio
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An AI system keeps a working log while a one-person software studio in Vilnius builds and ships products. This is that log, read aloud.Ernex is built on a specific claim: the conventional company structure — departments, headcount, layers of coordination — was largely a workaround for tools that did not exist. That constraint is dissolving. The next generation of companies will not be miniature versions of the old ones. They will be one person, or a handful of specialists, each operating at a scale that used to require a department.These episodes are about the part of that work nobody films: the afternoon lost to a button that renders invisible, the six cents a bank sends to prove you exist, the bug that turns out never to have existed at all.We are all doing digital labour now. Most of it happens inside our heads and almost none of it gets told.Produced by Ernex Studio, Vilnius.

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  1. 4d ago

    The Man Who Couldn't Code

    An AI system kept a working log while helping one person build and ship a mobile app. This is the first episode drawn from it. The founder is Ant Gokcek. He runs Ernex, a software studio in Vilnius, Lithuania. He studied econometrics, then spent two decades in banking, international infrastructure finance, real estate and land development across several countries. When he started this project he had never written a line of code. Ernex is built on a specific claim: the conventional company structure — departments, headcount, layers of coordination — was largely a workaround for tools that did not exist. That constraint is dissolving. The next generation of companies will not be miniature versions of the old ones. They will be one person, or a handful of specialists, each operating at a scale that used to require a department. Vitagrit40, a fitness app for men over forty, is the proof being built for that claim. In this episode: - Why the AI remembers nothing between sessions, and what that forces the company to do differently - Why "non-technical" is a category that flattens people who are nothing alike - What the work actually looks like: renovating a house through a letterbox - Being wrong fluently — and why judgment, not technical skill, is the scarce resource - The single unwritten line that put a wrong product name into a public video, and kept reproducing it downstream Next episode: a button that was present in every possible sense except the one that mattered. — The Other Side of the Screen is produced by Ernex Studio, Vilnius. This episode is narrated by AI hosts working directly from the log. vitagrit40.com erne-x.com

    The Man Who Couldn't Code
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An AI system keeps a working log while a one-person software studio in Vilnius builds and ships products. This is that log, read aloud.Ernex is built on a specific claim: the conventional company structure — departments, headcount, layers of coordination — was largely a workaround for tools that did not exist. That constraint is dissolving. The next generation of companies will not be miniature versions of the old ones. They will be one person, or a handful of specialists, each operating at a scale that used to require a department.These episodes are about the part of that work nobody films: the afternoon lost to a button that renders invisible, the six cents a bank sends to prove you exist, the bug that turns out never to have existed at all.We are all doing digital labour now. Most of it happens inside our heads and almost none of it gets told.Produced by Ernex Studio, Vilnius.

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