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Relevance Engineering: How to Show Up in AI Search
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| 7/1/26 |  AI for Virtual Assistants: Skills, Automations, and the Human-in-the-Loop | The Pragmatic AI Podcast is sponsored by Tighten. T-I-G-H-T-E-N. We will take your AI ideas, prototypes or even vibe-coded apps, and we'll take them to production. Scalable and secure. Check us out at tighten.com.In this episode, Matt Stauffer sits down with Kayla Helmick to talk about her journey from traditional virtual assistant work to leveraging AI for automations, podcast editing, and app development — and how she turned an early existential threat into the biggest boost her business has ever had.They get specific about the practical stuff: building reusable Claude skills to process podcasts, fixing stuck Zapier and Tally form automations, and going from playing around in Lovable to building and deploying a full Laravel app with Claude Code — her first being a memorial website for a friend.The conversation also widens out to the harder questions: keeping a human in the loop for quality, how AI is reshaping the future of virtual assistance and the work itself, and what it even means to call yourself a "virtual assistant" when you're shipping internal tools.Matt Stauffer on X - https://x.com/mattstaufferTighten Website - https://tighten.com/Kayla’s Website - http://kaylahelmick.comKayla on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kayla.helmick/Kayla on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaylahelmick/Kayla Helmick on X - https://x.com/kayla_helmick-----Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten - https://tighten.com/Big thanks to the companies that support the show:Mailtrap - https://l.rw.rw/pragmaticai_4 | 42m 25s | ||||||
| 6/24/26 |  The Conversations AI Forces Us to Have | The Pragmatic AI Podcast is sponsored by Tighten. T-I-G-H-T-E-N. We will take your AI ideas, prototypes or even vibe-coded apps, and we'll take them to production. Scalable and secure. Check us out at tighten.com.In this episode, Matt Stauffer talks with Justin Jackson, co-founder of Transistor.fm, about what AI is really doing to creators, careers, and company culture — and why so little of it is actually about the technology itself.They get into the generational backlash against AI, the myth that "all the layoffs are because of AI," how building with AI sparked a hard conversation with Justin's own co-founder, and the practical ways Justin uses ChatGPT and Claude in daily life, from meal planning to packing for a trip to London.The through-line is a challenge for an AI world: as the easy work gets automated, all that's left is the hard stuff — so do the hard thing, increase your "luck surface area," and lean into the human connection AI keeps surfacing.Matt Stauffer on X - https://x.com/mattstaufferTighten Website - https://tighten.com/Justin Jackson Website - https://justinjackson.ca/Transistor.fm - https://transistor.fm/Inception Point AI - https://www.inceptionpoint.ai/The Panel Podcast - https://panelpodcast.com/-----Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten - https://tighten.com/Big thanks to the companies that support the show:Mailtrap - https://l.rw.rw/pragmaticai_3 | 1h 09m 11s | ||||||
| 6/17/26 |  Relevance Engineering: How to Show Up in AI Search | The Pragmatic AI Podcast is sponsored by Tighten. T-I-G-H-T-E-N. We will take your AI ideas, prototypes or even vibe-coded apps, and we'll take them to production. Scalable and secure. Check us out at tighten.com.Matt Stauffer talks with Michael King, founder and CEO of iPullRank, about what he calls relevance engineering — the work of getting brands and people seen inside AI search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews.Mike explains why he reads patents and white papers instead of public docs, how he built his own retrieval-augmented generation prototype to understand how these systems actually work, and why visibility now comes from building "surface area" across your whole content ecosystem — Reddit, LinkedIn, digital PR — rather than from links alone. They get into the disappearing line between white hat and black hat, and why AI search has no rulebook yet.The conversation also turns personal: how Mike mandated his team get faster with AI, how he empowers people from the bottom up instead of issuing ultimatums, and how AI frees him to spend more time on the creative work — including music — that he actually wants to do.Matt Stauffer on X - https://x.com/mattstaufferTighten Website - https://tighten.com/Michael on X - https://x.com/VeryWellVersedMichael on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelkingphilly/iPullRank Website - https://ipullrank.com/iPullRank on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/ipullrank/iPullRank on X - https://x.com/iPullRank-----Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten - https://tighten.com/Big thanks to the companies that support the show:Mailtrap - https://l.rw.rw/pragmaticai_2 | 38m 17s | ||||||
| 6/10/26 |  Building a Self-Directed PhD With Claude AI | The Pragmatic AI Podcast is sponsored by Tighten. T-I-G-H-T-E-N. We will take your AI ideas, prototypes or even vibe-coded apps, and we'll take them to production. Scalable and secure. Check us out at tighten.com.In this episode, Matt Stauffer talks with software engineer and self-described "Renegade Historian" Dave Stanton, who has built an entire AI-driven workflow that lets him program — and write a 400-page history book — almost entirely by voice from his phone.They get into the nuts and bolts: an always-on Mac Mini running stacked Claude Code sessions in tmux, SSH access from anywhere, voice-to-text tools, and a self-designed "PhD" where Sonnet plays research assistant and Opus plays a hypercritical dissertation chair, with every critique tracked as a GitHub issue. Dave explains why the book itself was never really the goal.The conversation widens into the bigger questions — what gets lost when AI handles the rote work, whether to retain human connection on purpose, and Dave's honest 80/20 split between optimism and unease about where all of this is heading.Matt Stauffer on X Dave Stanton’s Website Dave on X Tighten Website Blink for iOSSuperwhisper Geography as Destiny on GitHub ngrok TailscaletmuxSolo Please Use AI by Sean Smucker -----Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten.Big thanks to the companies that support the show:Mailtrap | 1h 15m 44s | ||||||
| 6/3/26 |  Human Marketing in an AI Search World | The Pragmatic AI Podcast is sponsored by Tighten. T-I-G-H-T-E-N. We will take your AI ideas, prototypes or even vibe-coded apps, and we'll take them to production. Scalable and secure. Check us out at tighten.com.In this episode, Matt Stauffer sits down with Meg Clarke, owner of Clapping Dog Media, to talk about how getting found online has shifted from gaming search engines to being discovered by AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.They get practical fast: why keywords are giving way to 23-word prompts, why your About page suddenly matters, why LinkedIn beats Reddit as a source AI tools trust, and how Meg now runs tech audits and analysis through Claude skills and Cowork to cut payroll and take real vacations.The conversation also opens up into something bigger — how AI lowers the barrier to starting a business, why it changes the math differently for owners than for employees, and Meg's passion for helping more women step into entrepreneurship.Matt Stauffer on X Tighten Website Meg Clarke on LinkedInMeg’s Website Dan Martel BookAllie K. Miller on YouTube-----Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten. | 50m 35s | ||||||
| 5/27/26 |  Using AI As a Thinking Partner, Not a Vending Machine | The Pragmatic AI Podcast is sponsored by Tighten. T-I-G-H-T-E-N. We will take your AI ideas, prototypes or even vibe-coded apps, and we'll take them to production. Scalable and secure. Check us out at tighten.com.In this episode, Matt Stauffer talks with Greg Storey — author of Creative Intelligence: Don’t Ask AI, Think With It — about why most people are using AI like a productivity vending machine instead of a true thinking partner. Greg shares how AI can become a creative and strategic collaborator, exploring design thinking, divergent vs. convergent thinking, and the three questions he asks every time he starts a conversation with AI.They also dive into the bigger picture: why AI maximalism misses the point, how to stay creative as the tools become more capable, and what it means to preserve human creativity and curiosity in a rapidly changing world.Matt Stauffer on X - https://x.com/mattstaufferTighten Website - https://tighten.com/Greg’s Website - https://brilliantcrank.comGreg’s Book - https://brilliantcrank.com/creative-intelligence/Creative Intelligence Everyday Field Guides - https://brilliantcrank.com/creative-intelligence-field-guides/-----Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten - https://tighten.com/ | 1h 07m 51s | ||||||
| 5/20/26 |  AI Researcher Michelle Yi on Watson, World Models, and Why AI Should Be for Everyone | The Pragmatic AI Podcast is sponsored by Tighten. T-I-G-H-T-E-N. We will take your AI ideas, prototypes or even vibe-coded apps, and we'll take them to production. Scalable and secure. Check us out at tighten.com.Matt Stauffer is joined by Michelle Yi — co-founder of Generationship, board member of Women in Data, and AI Researcher at Basis Research Institute — who shares her 20-year journey across AI research, industry, and startups.Michelle traces the evolution of AI from her early days working on IBM Watson through to modern language models, reflecting on what's changed, what's been lost, and what's finally becoming possible. She and Matt dig into the importance of democratizing AI and making it genuinely useful beyond big tech.The conversation closes on Michelle's vision for a more equitable and responsible AI future — one being built through initiatives like Generationship and Basis Research Institute, and powered by people who choose to engage with AI rather than sit it out.Matt Stauffer on X Tighten Website Michelle on LinkedIn Basis Research InstituteNYC Rat Research in the News Pyro.ai Women in Data Generationship Decile Group Bobiverse Series Becky Chambers Book Andrej Karpathy YouTube Community Usage Tweet Setlist FM -----Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten. | 1h 06m 07s | ||||||
| 5/13/26 |  AI in Elementary Schools: A Principal’s Take | The Pragmatic AI Podcast is sponsored by Tighten. T-I-G-H-T-E-N. We will take your AI ideas, prototypes or even vibe-coded apps, and we'll take them to production. Scalable and secure. Check us out at tighten.com.In this episode, Matt Stauffer is joined by Amie McCaw, an elementary school principal in Southwest Michigan with 19 years of experience leading K-5 buildings. Together they explore what AI actually looks like inside a real elementary school and how teachers, principals, and students are navigating it.Amie shares how she uses AI for communications, observation feedback, and behavior planning, while always vetting the output and never passing it off as her own. She talks about the surprising generational divide on her staff, where younger Gen Z teachers are often the most skeptical of AI, and why she still wants her K-5 kids learning to write a sentence before reaching for a chatbot.The conversation widens into bigger questions: how AI is reshaping teacher burnout, why critical thinking has to come before trust, and why no tool will ever replace the human connection between a teacher and a child.Matt Stauffer on X - https://x.com/mattstaufferTighten Website - https://tighten.com/Amie on Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/amiemccaw.bsky.socialAmie on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amie-mccaw-53633464/-----Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten - https://tighten.com/ | 48m 08s | ||||||
| 5/6/26 |  Teaching Non-Developers to Build Real Apps With AI | The Pragmatic AI Podcast is sponsored by Tighten. T-I-G-H-T-E-N. We will take your AI ideas, prototypes or even vibe-coded apps, and we'll take them to production. Scalable and secure. Check us out at tighten.com.Matt Stauffer talks with Brian Casel about what it means to be a “builder” in 2026—and how that definition is rapidly expanding beyond traditional developers.They explore Brian’s work with Builder Methods and his YouTube channel, alongside the broader shift from writing code to spending the majority of time in planning, specs, and product thinking. The conversation highlights how AI is reshaping software development, enabling both technical and non-technical builders to create real, production-ready tools—not just experiments.They also dig into the rise of internal tools across all types of businesses, the growing importance of building in public, and why product thinking may now be the most valuable skill in the AI era.Matt Stauffer on X Tighten Website Brian Casel on X Builder Methods WebsiteBrian Casel on YouTubeProductize Course-----Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten - https://tighten.com/ | 1h 07m 56s | ||||||
| 4/29/26 |  Is AI Replacing Developers or Just Changing the Job? | The Pragmatic AI Podcast is sponsored by Tighten. T-I-G-H-T-E-N. We will take your AI ideas, prototypes or even vibe-coded apps, and we'll take them to production. Scalable and secure. Check us out at tighten.com.Matt Stauffer talks with Ian Landsman — 20-year SaaS founder, bootstrapper, and the person many credit with making the Laravel ecosystem possible — about what it actually looks like to build software with AI when you're not a full-time developer.Ian shares how AI removed the biggest bottleneck in his workflow — the code itself — letting him think like a product builder instead of a programmer. They dig into running multiple AI models simultaneously to debug hard problems, using AI to tackle security audits, building competitive comparison pages for Help Spot, and why writer's block may be solved.The conversation also gets into the harder questions: how much code should founders actually read? What happens when junior developers lean too heavily on AI without oversight? And what does it mean for small software businesses when the internet starts opening up again through MCP?Matt Stauffer on X Tighten WebsiteIan Landsman on X Ian Landsman on Bluesky Ian Landman’s Website HelpSpot Aaron Francis Counselors Solo ahrefs Outro -----Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten. | 1h 28m 08s | ||||||
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| 4/22/26 |  Kent C. Dodds on MCP and How Product Engineering Might Outlast Coding | The Pragmatic AI Podcast is sponsored by Tighten. T-I-G-H-T-E-N. We will take your AI ideas, prototypes or even vibe-coded apps, and we'll take them to production. Scalable and secure. Check us out at tighten.com.Matt Stauffer talks with Kent C. Dodds — educator, JavaScript expert, and creator of Epic Web, Epic React, and Epic AI — about what it actually looks like to use AI at the frontier of software development.They dig into how Kent ships thousands of lines of AI-generated code without reviewing most of it, why he believes "product engineering" is the most durable skill left in the industry, and what MCP (Model Context Protocol) is and why it matters far beyond the developer world. Kent also walks through Kody, his personal AI assistant that controls his home, journals his life story, and can integrate with virtually anything.The conversation gets real on education, the future of jobs, the role of human empathy in an AI-dominated world, and why Kent thinks the parts of our jobs AI is taking are usually the parts we hated most anyway.Matt Stauffer on X Tighten Website Kent’s Website Kent on XKent on GitHub Epic WebEpic React Epic AI VS Code Cursor CodeRabbit Cursor Bugbot Practical TypeScript Course Justin Jackson Post EpicProduct.Engineer Community Usage from Bogdan Kharchenko Jesse Genet on X Kent C. Dodds AI Engineer Miami Talk-----Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten. | 1h 19m 07s | ||||||
| 4/15/26 |  Creating AI Workflows for Designers | The Pragmatic AI Podcast is sponsored by Tighten. T-I-G-H-T-E-N. We will take your AI ideas, prototypes or even vibe-coded apps, and we'll take them to production. Scalable and secure. Check us out at tighten.com.In this episode, Steve Schoger, designer and partner at Tailwind Labs, shares how he’s actually using AI in his day-to-day work, including tools like Claude in his design workflow. The conversation explores how AI is changing creativity, how it affects team collaboration, and what it might mean for the future of design and development. Matt Stauffer on Twitter - https://x.com/mattstaufferTighten Website - https://tighten.com/Steve Schoger on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SteveSchogerSteve Schoger on Twitter - https://x.com/steveschogerSteve’s video on X - https://x.com/steveschoger/status/2035077141050622173?s=20Paper - https://paper.design/Skogafoss Waterfall Hike - https://thephotohikes.com/skogafoss-and-the-waterfall-way-hike/-----Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten. | 43m 55s | ||||||
| 4/8/26 |  Advocating for more AI Governance | The Pragmatic AI Podcast is sponsored by Tighten. T-I-G-H-T-E-N. We will take your AI ideas, prototypes or even vibe-coded apps, and we'll take them to production. Scalable and secure. Check us out at tighten.com.Matt Stauffer talks with Karen Maria Alston, a 20-year communication strategist turned AI governance advocate, about why AI is impacting everyone, whether they use it or not.They get into the real-world ways AI is already shaping daily life: deepfake photos on dating apps, AI-generated social media influencers with millions of followers, voice mimicry scams draining retirement accounts, and what it means that most Americans, including most politicians, still have no idea any of this is happening. Karen breaks down the case for voter mobilization, legislative action, and why individual abstention from AI doesn't actually change the trajectory.The conversation also gets into identity, the social contract, and the deeper human cost of automation, including what it means to lose a job that was part of who you were, and what it looks like to be hopeful about AI without being naive about it.Matt Stauffer on Twitter Tighten Website Karen Maria Alston on LinkedIn Karen Maria Alston on Instagram Karen Maria Alston on Substack Karen Maria Alston’s Website -----Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten. | 41m 39s | ||||||
| 4/1/26 |  The Nexus of Technology & Theology | The Pragmatic AI Podcast is sponsored by Tighten. T-I-G-H-T-E-N. We will take your AI ideas, prototypes or even vibe-coded apps, and we'll take them to production. Scalable and secure. Check us out at tighten.com.Matt Stauffer talks with Nick Peterson, PhD, Assistant Professor of Homiletics at Christian Theological Seminary, ordained AME minister, executive pastor, and grant director, about the deep history between religion and technology, and what AI is really doing to knowledge, credit, and labor.They explore how Nick uses AI as a tool for falsifiability rather than content generation, why the plantation economy is a useful (and uncomfortable) lens for understanding who benefits from large language models, and how the same dynamics that shaped the Gutenberg press, televangelism, and colonialism are very much alive in the age of Claude and ChatGPT.The conversation raises harder questions about what it means to own an idea, what students lose when AI does their thinking for them, and whether the consolidation of knowledge in the hands of a few tech platforms is something new, or just the oldest story in human history, running faster.Matt Stauffer on Twitter Tighten WebsiteNick’s Website Nick on Instagram Nick on Facebook -----Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten. | 52m 14s | ||||||
| 3/25/26 |  A Framework for Approaching Worrying Technology | The Pragmatic AI Podcast is sponsored by Tighten. T-I-G-H-T-E-N. We will take your AI ideas, prototypes or even vibe-coded apps, and we'll take them to production. Scalable and secure. Check us out at tighten.com.Matt Stauffer talks with Reuben Johnson — aka YoBigRube — founder of Fly Duo, a storytelling studio specializing in high-trust narratives for complex and sensitive messaging. Reuben brings a perspective shaped by decades as a self-taught developer and outsider to the tech establishment.They explore what it looks like to engage with AI when you have real criticisms of the industry — from choosing the least evil tool to running local LLMs, using AI as a writing accountability partner, and refusing to let a machine call itself human.The conversation covers AI bias, abstracted accountability, the vulnerability of kids to AI characters, and why the answer to symbolic activism isn't more symbols — it's showing up in community, staying curious, and never deciding you've done enough.Matt Stauffer on Twitter Tighten Website FlyDuo | High-Trust StorytellingReuben Johnson on LinkedInSam Cole Deep Fake Podcast The Tech We Want404 MediaSmall Technology FoundationPBS Sex Tech N Chill Community Tweet -----Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten. | 1h 04m 18s | ||||||
| 3/18/26 |  Beyond “Spicy Autocomplete”: What AI Models Actually Do | The Pragmatic AI Podcast is sponsored by Tighten. T-I-G-H-T-E-N. We will take your AI ideas, prototypes or even vibe-coded apps, and we'll take them to production. Scalable and secure. Check us out at tighten.com.Matt Stauffer sits down with Sam Rose, developer educator at ngrok, to unpack what’s actually happening inside the AI models we use every day. Sam breaks down ideas like parameters, gradient descent, embeddings, and vector search in a way that makes them intuitive, using simple analogies such as converting Celsius to Fahrenheit. Along the way, they explore Ethan Mollick’s concept of the “jagged frontier” of AI capability and discuss why benchmarks like SWE-bench don’t always tell the full story.The conversation wraps with a thoughtful look at the ethical tensions around modern AI: intellectual property concerns, the massive financial momentum behind these systems, and what it means to keep using these tools thoughtfully even when you’re still wrestling with their implications.Matt Stauffer on Twitter Tighten Website Sam Website Sam on Twitter Prompt Caching Blog Post Co-Intelligence Book Benchmark Blog Post Distributed Representations of Words and Phrases and their Compositionality Stephen Welch on TwitterWelch Labs on YouTube Julia Turc on YouTubeBuild a Large Language Model (From Scratch) Book Nathan LambertAaron Francis WebsiteFaster.dev Mitchell Hashimoto Armin Ronacher My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts Blog Post -----Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten. | 1h 02m 54s | ||||||
| 3/11/26 |  Understanding, and Automating, Business with AI | The Pragmatic AI Podcast is sponsored by Tighten. T-I-G-H-T-E-N. We will take your AI ideas, prototypes or even vibe-coded apps, and we'll take them to production. Scalable and secure. Check us out at tighten.com.In this episode, Matt Stauffer talks with AI strategist Blessing Richardson about how businesses can use AI in practical, responsible ways. They explore the importance of data literacy, building personal AI tools, and creating a culture of experimentation inside organizations. The conversation also looks at the deeper questions: how AI is changing the way we work, how it affects us as humans, and what the future of AI in business might look like.Matt Stauffer on Twitter Tighten Website Blessing’s Blog Blessing on LinkedIn Blessing on Threads Sayla Coda-----Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten. | 49m 26s | ||||||
| 3/4/26 |  How AI Is Changing Writing and Creative Work | The Pragmatic AI Podcast is sponsored by Tighten. T-I-G-H-T-E-N. We will take your AI ideas, prototypes or even vibe-coded apps, and we'll take them to production. Scalable and secure. Check us out at tighten.com.In this episode of Pragmatic AI, Matt Stauffer and Jordan Keller discuss how AI is reshaping writing, content creation, and the people who make their living with words.They unpack Jordan’s wide-ranging career, the pressure writers are feeling as AI floods the internet with passable content, and why taste and discernment matter more than ever. They explore where AI can genuinely help, especially in research and synthesis, and where it still falls short in originality and creative depth.The conversation also touches on decentralization, ownership, and what it means to build a voice in a world where anyone can generate text in seconds.Matt Stauffer on Twitter Tighten Website Jordan Keller on BlueskyJordan Keller Website -----Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten. | 52m 10s | ||||||
| 2/25/26 |  The Education Business in an AI World | The Pragmatic AI Podcast is sponsored by Tighten. T-I-G-H-T-E-N. We will take your AI ideas, prototypes or even vibe-coded apps, and we'll take them to production. Scalable and secure. Check us out at tighten.com.In this episode of Pragmatic AI, Matt Stauffer interviews Jeffrey Way, the creator of Laracasts, to talk about what AI is really doing to developer education. They explore how AI is changing the landscape of developer education, the challenges it presents, and the need for educational platforms to adapt. Jeffrey shares the tension many educators feel right now: excitement about what AI makes possible, mixed with the uncertainty of what it replaces. The conversation moves beyond developers, exploring how AI changes the way non-technical people learn, build, and participate in the software world. Matt Stauffer on TwitterTighten Website Jeffrey Way on Twitter Laracasts MIT Technology Review - AI’s Energy Footprint Her Movie -----Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten. | 50m 55s | ||||||
| 2/18/26 |  AI’s Impact on Open Source Funding | The Pragmatic AI Podcast is sponsored by Tighten. T-I-G-H-T-E-N. We will take your AI ideas, prototypes or even vibe-coded apps, and we'll take them to production. Scalable and secure. Check us out at tighten.com.In this episode, Matt Stauffer sits down with Adam Wathan, creator of Tailwind CSS, to talk about the very real impact AI is having on product companies, open source communities, and the broader tech landscape. Adam shares how AI has affected Tailwind’s business, including revenue shifts and the difficult decision to make layoffs.They discuss the emotional weight of leading through change, the search for new opportunities in an AI-shaped world, and what it means for developer education moving forward. Adam emphasizes that while AI is reshaping how we build, developers must adapt to AI tools while maintaining the human element of software development.Matt Stauffer on Twitter Tighten Website Adam Wathan on Twitter Tailwind CSS Adam’s Podcast Episode Re: Layoffs Buy Back Your Time Book -----Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten. | 48m 34s | ||||||
| 2/11/26 |  Dreaming Bigger With AI - Aaron Francis | The Pragmatic AI Podcast is sponsored by Tighten. T-I-G-H-T-E-N. We will take your AI ideas, prototypes or even vibe-coded apps, and we'll take them to production. Scalable and secure. Check us out at tighten.com.In this episode of Pragmatic AI, host Matt Stauffer interviews Aaron Francis, a Laravel developer and co-founder of Try Hard Studios. They discuss Aaron's journey from being a software developer to an educator, the impact of AI on the development landscape, and the importance of adapting to new technologies. Aaron shares his insights on the challenges and opportunities presented by AI, the shift in developer education, and his current ventures, including faster.dev, which focuses on teaching engineers how to use AI effectively. The conversation also touches on the quality of code produced by AI and the importance of maintaining standards in software development.Matt Stauffer on TwitterTighten WebsiteAaron Francis on TwitterAaron Francis Website Try Hard StudiosFaster.dev Mostly Technical Podcast-----Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten. | 49m 21s | ||||||
| 2/6/26 |  Pragmatic AI Season One Trailer | AI is *everywhere*, like it or not. Everyone's either hating or hyping. But where do you find the middle?New podcast alert! First episode drops 2/10/26. Short, practical interviews w/builders, founders, & researchers using & studying real-world AI. | 1m 36s | ||||||
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