Talbot Tech
Learn how the web really works.
Practical technology training from people who have done the work. Build useful software, understand the systems around you, and develop judgment that no tutorial can give you.
Client voices
Proof over promises
Talbot Tech teaches the same practices Sean uses to build and guide real client platforms every week. Here's what the leaders behind those platforms have to say.
CoolFrames couldn't run without Sean. For more than a decade, he's been the technical backbone of our platform. He can get deep into the implementation when needed, then step back and think like a CTO.
Dan Blessing
CEO, CoolFrames
Sean helped us build Peak's auction platform from the ground up. His oversight has been essential—without him, we wouldn't be where we are today.
Matt Davison
President, Peak Auto Auctions
We brought Sean in in 2022 to take over a PHP project and rebuild it from the ground up in Laravel. Since then, he's shown us why Laravel belongs in the enterprise—and how well it can hold its own against .NET.
Bryan Taylor
Founder, Anderson Taylor LLC
Sean helped us carry a complex Symfony insurance platform across the finish line—we couldn't have done it without him. He was also there at the beginning of PhishingBox, helping lay the foundation for what it is today.
Thomas Chase Gullett
CEO, PhishingBox
First course · Founding Cohort
AI-Driven Software Development
Learn how to turn an idea into working software by planning the work, directing AI coding agents, correcting mistakes, and shipping a real first version.
See the full program →- Status
- Enrolling now — training starts August 3rd
- Format
- Two weeks · 3 live workshops · limited to 20 founding participants
- Founding price
$249$99 enroll by July 31st- Enrollment
- Open now — 20 seats, first come, first served.
“I'm not going to teach you how to write code. You can learn that anywhere. I'm going to teach you everything else.”
Everything else is the part that matters: scoping an idea, writing a spec an agent can execute, directing the work, spotting when it goes wrong, debugging, testing, deploying — and actually finishing.
How Talbot Tech teaches
Real work
Demonstrations use actual projects and imperfect attempts — not rehearsed demos that always go right.
Practical judgment
Students learn how to decide, diagnose, and recover — the skills that remain after the tutorial ends.
Finished outcomes
Training is organized around making something useful, not collecting certificates.
Taught by someone who ships
Sean Talbot has built full-stack web applications professionally since 2008 and worked with PHP since 2004. He has maintained gnarly legacy systems, built new platforms from scratch, taught a full-stack Laravel bootcamp, and helped run developer education in Louisville — and he is pragmatic about both the power and the limits of AI.
The full story →Where this is going
Software is our first subject, not our last. Talbot Tech is building a library of practical knowledge from experienced people who know how to build, repair, diagnose, and finish real work.
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