Pragmatic AI with Matt Stauffer
by Matt Stauffer
Pragmatic AI is a podcast about practical AI for business leaders, developers, and thinkers—the stuff that actually works, not the hate or the hype. We cover using AI tools day-to-day across the spectrum of human experience.
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How Laravel Uses AI Across Finance, Legal, HR, and Sales
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 Tom Crary, President and COO of...
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Wax On, Wax Off: What AI Can't Teach a 14-Year-Old
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 Bill Van Loo — high school engineering educator,...
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A Data Scientist’s Approach to 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 Apoorva Joshi, DevRel at MongoDB, about...
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Ghost.org’s John O’Nolan on How AI Helps Small Teams Win Against Giants
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 John O'Nolan, founder of Ghost, the...
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AI and Geopolitics: Building Agents That Think Like World Powers
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 Lauren Dueck, SVP and Director of...
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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…
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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…
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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...
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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…
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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,...
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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...
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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.
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Pragmatic AI is a podcast about practical AI for business leaders, developers, and thinkers—the stuff that actually works, not the hate or the hype. We cover using AI tools day-to-day across the spectrum of human experience.
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