I Built a Digital Banking Platform While Watching TV. Here's What That Actually Means.

Hackernoon AIby Dan WeisApril 3, 20261 min read0 views

I spent 6+ years building white-label banking platforms. Then I rebuilt one in a week using AI — from the couch, watching TV, firing off half-formed questions between episodes. It worked. But not for the reasons you'd expect, and not without the sixteen years of SDLC instinct I didn't realize I was using. The finding isn't that AI can build software. It's that AI stalled exactly where vendor schemas were proprietary and flew where documentation was public. The moat was never the software. It was always information asymmetry. Here's what that means for everyone in the implementation business — and what I open-sourced at the end of it. Read All

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April 3rd, 2026

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