About Talbot Tech
Practical knowledge, put to work
My dad spent a lifetime learning how to understand and repair electronics. I spent mine learning how to build software. Talbot Tech exists to preserve that kind of practical knowledge and pass it on.
Talbot Tech is a publisher of practical knowledge: the kind people acquire through years of building, repairing, troubleshooting, and making mistakes. Our ambition is an independent technology-learning catalog in the spirit of the great technical publishers — beginning with software, and eventually expanding to other practitioners and other crafts.
Taste and execution
Good taste helps you choose what is worth making and recognize when it is ready. Execution means planning the work, building it, fixing what breaks, and getting it into someone’s hands. Talbot Tech teaches both through projects people can inspect and use.
How we work
- Real work. Demonstrations use actual projects and imperfect attempts. More workshop than classroom; more field guide than textbook.
- Practitioners only. Every title is taught by someone who has done the work for years — starting with Sean, and eventually others.
- Candor. Honest about early access, prerequisites, delivery dates, and the limits of AI. No fake testimonials, no manufactured scarcity, no income claims.
- Finished outcomes. Courses are organized around making something useful, not accumulating watch time.
What we refuse to become
Not an AI-news site. Not a library of shallow tool tutorials. Not a "become a developer overnight" offer. Not a neon-gradient, robot-filled AI aesthetic. And not a personality cult — Talbot Tech starts with Sean's experience, but it's built to outgrow any single instructor.
The founder
Sean Talbot has built full-stack web applications professionally since 2008 and worked with PHP since 2004. He has maintained legacy systems, built new platforms, taught a full-stack Laravel bootcamp, and helped run developer education and meetups in Louisville, Kentucky. Today he works with AI coding agents daily on production systems — which is exactly what he teaches.
Sean also advises a small number of companies directly as a fractional CTO. Work with Sean →
The first course
AI-Driven Software Development launches as a live founding cohort: bring a real idea and build a working first version with AI in two weeks. The recordings, questions, and honest mistakes of that cohort become Talbot Tech's first permanent course.
Follow the build
Get the AI-Ready Task Brief and follow along as Talbot Tech builds its first course — including the parts that don't go to plan.