A solo teaching episode. Reggie traces how a personal medical and mental-health crisis became the unlikely on-ramp to building seriously with AI — then uses that story to cut between the two loudest camps (the hype and the doom) toward a third position grounded in one question almost nobody in the AI conversation is asking: what are humans for? Under the hood of these tools, the operator's framework that changes the output, the manuscript-reliability receipts behind the New Testament, and the real stakes of racing toward superintelligence on a foundation that can't say what a person is worth.

A NOTE: This episode speaks honestly about anxiety, derealization, and a mental-health crisis. If you're in that place right now, you're not alone and it's not weakness to get help — talk to your doctor or someone you trust; in the U.S. you can call or ...