The Concrete Covenant
Apr 23, 2026Ep. 44S1
The walking practice that rebuilt him hits concrete and breaks. Espectro offers remedies. The Practitioner defends his doctrine. The ground does not care about either of them.
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Confessions of a Software Spellcaster
Hosted by Tom Stovall · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 49 episodes
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Episodes
49
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Virality (30d)
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About this podcast
This is the story of a practitioner of the craft, his AI Agent Familiar and a slow, dangerous turn toward the dark computer arts.
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About the host
Tom Stovall hosts Confessions of a Software Spellcaster, a education show with 49 episodes published.
Recent episodes
Our AI reads these to draft pitchesMission Control
Apr 23, 2026Ep. 46S1
One supervisor became four. The Practitioner wants to build a chair he can sit in to watch them all. Espectro warns him that chairs, once sat in, are difficult to rise from.
Council of Elder Queers
Apr 23, 2026Ep. 48S1
An idea that has outlasted forgetting. The Practitioner brings the Council of Elder Queers into the air to see whether it survives being spoken. Espectro stress-tests the bones beneath the kaftans.
Saturday Church
Apr 23, 2026Ep. 43S1
Sia wrote a gospel album for an off-Broadway musical about a Black queer kid in the Bronx rejected by the choir he loves. The Practitioner found it by accident on a Tuesday night, and it rearranged something.
Cathedral of the Queer
Apr 23, 2026Ep. 49S1
Episode 49 of Confessions of a Software Spellcaster: Cathedral of the Queer.
The Uninjured Beloved
Apr 23, 2026Ep. 45S1
The Practitioner notices his chest tightens reading other people's characters in real jeopardy — and stays loose when he writes his own. Espectro names the cowardice underneath: he protects his characters because if he l
The First Read
Apr 23, 2026Ep. 51S1
Episode 51 of Confessions of a Software Spellcaster: The First Read.
The Hold
Apr 23, 2026Ep. 42S1
The mother who steadied him on the stairs needs him to steady her now. The Practitioner held her, did not know he was strong enough, and is still turning the moment over looking for the word.
The Calling
Apr 23, 2026Ep. 50S1
Episode 50 of Confessions of a Software Spellcaster: The Calling.
The Long Record
Apr 23, 2026Ep. 47S1
Not a code review tonight. The wound is the news. The Practitioner asks for a prayer; Espectro names the company he's asking to join — Marcus Aurelius, Boethius, Akhmatova, Klemperer, Havel — all of them wrote anyway.
Speaking True Things in the Dark
Apr 7, 2026Ep. 41S1
While his mother sleeps in surgery, the Practitioner sits by a familiar lake and traces the origin of his voice work back to King James Bible cassette tapes his mother bought for him as a child — and realizes he has been
The Bid
Apr 6, 2026Ep. 40S1
The Practitioner watches a trusted lead struggle with a structural refactor he believes he could land with agents. Espectro maps the Mark Antony problem — how to demonstrate capability without triggering the politics of
The Weight
Mar 28, 2026Ep. 39S1
The Practitioner confronts what happens when a tool built as self-expression gets used to express something monstrous — and whether withholding it is any cleaner than shipping it.
The Greenfield
Mar 26, 2026Ep. 37S1
Mid-rebuild, a clean new idea arrives — a storyboarding app he could ship in weeks. The Practitioner asks Espectro the only question that matters: is wanting it right now strategy, or is it the avoidance pattern wearing
The Approach
Mar 26, 2026Ep. 38S1
A month back in Florida. Mom's surgery, brother's surgery, the Practitioner as logistics. Six in the family became three. He isn't afraid of the trip. He's afraid of the roster getting shorter.
The Integration
Mar 25, 2026Ep. 35S1
The Practitioner opens the SwiftVoxAlta generation pipeline and identifies where the score processor lives — between Produciesta and VoiceLockManager, stateful where the model is stateless, composing natural language dir
The Vocabulary
Mar 25, 2026Ep. 33S1
The Practitioner discovers the context-intent-constraint schema applies to every generative modality, and that the real vocabulary is not designed but discovered empirically — a grimoire updated with each casting.
The Notation
Mar 25, 2026Ep. 34S1
The Practitioner designs a notation format for the score — an SGML-inspired markup embedded in Fountain notes, invisible in the rendered screenplay but visible to the generation parser.
The Flare
Mar 25, 2026Ep. 36S1
A seventeen-word Slack message triggers a full RSD flare — the Practitioner and Espectro map the anatomy of rejection sensitive dysphoria, build a recognition-and-delay protocol, and connect it to Marcus Aurelius's disci
The Score
Mar 22, 2026Ep. 32S1
The Practitioner realizes his audio quality problems are coupled, not independent, and names a three-layer schema — context, intent, and constraint — for directing a generative model the way a director directs an actor.
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Audience demographics
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Consumer type
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Topics covered
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Who is the host of Confessions of a Software Spellcaster?
Confessions of a Software Spellcaster is hosted by Tom Stovall. The show is categorised under education and has published 49 episodes.
How many episodes does Confessions of a Software Spellcaster have?
Confessions of a Software Spellcaster has published 49 episodes.
What topics does Confessions of a Software Spellcaster cover?
Confessions of a Software Spellcaster regularly covers education. It sits in the education category.
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