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.
Pragmatic AI with Matt Stauffer
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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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Recent Episodes
July 15, 2026
AI and Geopolitics: Building Agents That Think Like World Powers
<p>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.</p><br><p>In this episode, Matt Stauffer talks with Lauren Dueck, SVP and Director of Communications at The Asia Group, a geopolitical consulting firm advising the world's top companies. Lauren shares how AI is reshaping geopolitical consulting, decision-making, and communication — across both her daily work and her firm's high-stakes advisory practice.</p><p><br>They dig into practical, grounded uses: reducing decision fatigue, comparing dense reports, and priming Claude with current events because "AI is very bad at telling time." Lauren then walks through a standout project — an agent-based war game that simulated the Strait of Hormuz crisis 50 times, modeling how players like the Reserve Bank of India and South Korea's Blue House might respond.</p><p><br>The bigger thread is a contrarian one: that AI will make genuine human expertise rarer, more valuable, and more expensive, even as it reshapes entry-level work, deepfakes, and how the next generation learns.</p><ul><li><a href="https://x.com/mattstauffer">Matt Stauffer on X</a> - <a href="https://x.com/mattstauffer">https://x.com/mattstauffer</a></li><li><a href="https://tighten.com/">Tighten Website</a> - <a href="https://tighten.com/">https://tighten.com/</a></li><li><a href="https://x.com/LaurenDueck">Lauren Dueck on X</a> - <a href="https://x.com/LaurenDueck">https://x.com/LaurenDueck</a></li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlaurendueck/">Lauren Dueck on LinkedIn</a> - <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlaurendueck/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlaurendueck/</a></li><li><a href="https://theasiagroup.com/">The Asia Group</a> - <a href="https://theasiagroup.com/">https://theasiagroup.com/</a></li><li><a href="https://straitofhormuz.theasiagroup.com/">Strait of Hormuz Report</a> - <a href="https://straitofhormuz.theasiagroup.com/">https://straitofhormuz.theasiagroup.com/</a></li></ul><p><br>-----</p><p><br>Editing and transcription sponsored by <a href="https://tighten.com/">Tighten</a> - <a href="https://tighten.com/">https://tighten.com/</a></p>
July 1, 2026
AI for Virtual Assistants: Skills, Automations, and the Human-in-the-Loop
<p>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.</p><br><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><ul><li><a href="https://x.com/mattstauffer">Matt Stauffer on X</a> - <a href="https://x.com/mattstauffer">https://x.com/mattstauffer</a></li><li><a href="https://tighten.com/">Tighten Website</a> - <a href="https://tighten.com/">https://tighten.com/</a></li><li><a href="http://kaylahelmick.com">Kayla’s Website</a> - <a href="http://kaylahelmick.com">http://kaylahelmick.com</a></li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/kayla.helmick/">Kayla on Instagram</a> - <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kayla.helmick/">https://www.instagram.com/kayla.helmick/</a></li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaylahelmick/">Kayla on LinkedIn</a> - <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaylahelmick/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaylahelmick/</a></li><li><a href="https://x.com/kayla_helmick">Kayla Helmick on X</a> - <a href="https://x.com/Kayyyla_Helmick">https://x.com/kayla_helmick</a></li></ul><p>-----</p><p>Editing and transcription sponsored by <a href="https://tighten.com/">Tighten</a> - <a href="https://tighten.com/">https://tighten.com/</a></p><p><strong>Big thanks to the companies that support the show:<br></strong><br></p><p><a href="https://l.rw.rw/pragmaticai_4">Mailtrap</a> - <a href="https://l.rw.rw/pragmaticai_4">https://l.rw.rw/pragmaticai_4</a></p>
June 24, 2026
The Conversations AI Forces Us to Have
<p>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.</p><br><p>In this episode, Matt Stauffer talks with Justin Jackson, co-founder of <a href="http://transistor.fm/">Transistor.fm</a>, about what AI is really doing to creators, careers, and company culture — and why so little of it is actually about the technology itself.</p><p><br>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.</p><p><br>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.</p><p><br></p><ul><li><a href="https://x.com/mattstauffer">Matt Stauffer on X</a> - <a href="https://x.com/mattstauffer">https://x.com/mattstauffer</a></li><li><a href="https://tighten.com/">Tighten Website</a> - <a href="https://tighten.com/">https://tighten.com/</a></li><li><a href="https://justinjackson.ca/">Justin Jackson Website</a> - <a href="https://justinjackson.ca/">https://justinjackson.ca/</a></li><li><a href="http://transistor.fm/">Transistor.fm</a> - <a href="https://transistor.fm/">https://transistor.fm/</a></li><li><a href="https://www.inceptionpoint.ai/">Inception Point AI</a> - <a href="https://www.inceptionpoint.ai/">https://www.inceptionpoint.ai/</a></li><li><a href="https://panelpodcast.com/">The Panel Podcast</a> - <a href="https://panelpodcast.com/">https://panelpodcast.com/</a></li></ul><p><br>-----</p><p><br>Editing and transcription sponsored by <a href="https://tighten.com/">Tighten</a> - <a href="https://tighten.com/">https://tighten.com/</a></p><p><strong><br>Big thanks to the companies that support the show:</strong></p><p><a href="https://l.rw.rw/pragmaticai_3">Mailtrap</a> - <a href="https://l.rw.rw/pragmaticai_3">https://l.rw.rw/pragmaticai_3</a></p>
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