AI can write code — but that doesn’t mean you should trust it.

In this episode of Domesticating AI, we’re joined by Tyler Folkman (author of The AI Architect) to break down how engineers are actually using AI to build software — and why most people are still just vibe coding.

Vibe coding vs real engineering
Reasoning models vs coding models
How to plan and prompt AI effectively
When to let AI take the wheel (and when not to)
Local vs cloud coding agents
Token costs vs owning hardware

Tyler Folkman — The AI Architect

Anthropic
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OpenAI
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Ollama
https://ollama.com
MiniMax-M2.5
https://ollama.com/library/minimax-m2.5
GLM-5
https://ollama.com/library/glm-5

AmpCode Chronicle
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Andrej Karpathy on Context Engineering
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Domesticating AI is a bi-weekly podcast about practical AI for developers.

We help you brace the feral open-source AI landscape — so you can tame it instead of getting dragged by it.

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