Four devs. Four months. One $640 billion problem.

We built an AI waste classification app for California's SB 1383 compliance. In this episode: why context engineering beats prompt engineering, the CapacitorJS tradeoffs nobody warns you about, building an AI assistant that isn't ChatGPT slop, and how gamification actually got people to care about recycling.

Honest takes on what broke, what worked, and why we're not making this a startup.