Episode #536: From Filament to Agents: The Tools Keep Getting Cheaper and the Judgment Keeps Getting Scarcer

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Stewart Alsop III interviews Andre Oliveira about his journey in 3D printing and the implications of AI technology on manufacturing and e-commerce.

In this episode of Crazy Wisdom, Stewart Alsop sits down with Andre Oliveira, founder of Splash N Color, a bootstrapped 3D printing e-commerce business selling consumer goods on Amazon. The two cover a lot of ground — from how Andre went from running 40 FDM printers out of South Florida to offshoring manufacturing to China, to how he's using Claude Code to automate inventory management and generate supplier RFQs across 200+ SKUs. The conversation stretches into bigger territory too: the San Francisco AI scene, the rise of AI agents and what they mean for the future of the internet, whether local on-device AI will eventually replace cloud-based tools, and why building physical products will stay hard long after software becomes easy. It's a candid, wide-ranging conversation between two self-taught builders figuring things out in real time. Follow Andre on X: @AndreBaach . Timestamps 00:00 — Andre introduces Splash N Color, his Amazon-based 3D printing e-commerce business and explains the grind of running 40 FDM machines in South Florida. 05:00 — The conversation shifts to Claude Code and how Andre built an inventory automation system to manage sales velocity and RFQs across 200+…

People in this episode

Host: Stewart Alsop III

Guest: Andre Oliveira

Topics covered

• 3D printing
• AI technology
• e-commerce
• inventory management
• automation
• manufacturing
• future of the internet

Keywords

• 3D printing
• AI agents
• inventory automation
• e-commerce business
• manufacturing
• Claude Code
• South Florida
• San Francisco AI scene

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Splash N Color, Amazon, Claude Code, Opus 4.6, Codex, Claude

Places: South Florida, San Francisco

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