A Framework for Approaching Worrying Technology
from Pragmatic AI with Matt Stauffer Hosted by Matt Stauffer
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 Storytelling Reuben Johnson on LinkedIn Sam Cole Deep Fake Podcast The Tech We Want 404 Media Small Technology Foundation PBS Sex Tech N Chill Community Tweet ----- Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten.
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