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The AI Architect newsletter by Tyler Folkman: latest issues, cadence and price

by Tyler Folkman · Substack · Free · weekly · last issue Oct 22, 2026 · Active

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I'm the Chief AI Officer at JobNimbus. I run a real AI stack: coding agents, local models, multi-agent systems and publish the receipts: what it costs, what broke, and what actually ships.

Issues

22 on file since Jun 14, 2026

22 of 22 issues

AI and agentsOct 22The Model Downloaded Fine. Then It Talked NonsenseRead ↗
AI and agentsOct 18Your AI Agent Has Your Passwords. Audit It in 20 MinutesRead ↗
AI and agentsOct 14I Benchmark Every Model I Route Work To. It Takes One EveningRead ↗
AI and agentsOct 11STOP Trusting AI Leaderboards, Bench the Part You Actually OwnRead ↗
AI and agentsOct 6Before I write about this publiclyRead ↗
AI and agentsOct 4What It Costs to Run Your Own AI NowRead ↗
AI and agentsSep 27My Agent Spent 32,524 Tokens Before It Even Read a FileRead ↗
AI and agentsSep 20I Ran 60 AI Agents for a Full Day on Jev, the Model That Can't Talk. It Cost 35 CentsRead ↗
AI and agentsSep 13I Cut My AI Coding Bill From $200 to $20 by Routing Jobs, Not DowngradingRead ↗
AI and agentsSep 6The Fastest Model Lost My BenchmarkRead ↗
AI and agentsAug 30I Stopped Betting My Work on One AI ModelRead ↗
AI and agentsAug 23I Cut My AI Coding Subscription Bill From $200 to $20Read ↗
AI and agentsAug 16I Don’t Use One AI Model for Everything. I Built an Agent Harness InsteadRead ↗
AI and agentsAug 9I Built an AI Scout for the Ideas My X Feed BuriedRead ↗
Product and growthAug 4Can Kimi K3 Build a Storefront That Feels Like a Real Product?Read ↗
AI and agentsJul 26My “Cheaper” AI Coding Handoff Cost 4× as MuchRead ↗
AI and agentsJul 19AI Is Cheap Until You Have to Do the Work TwiceRead ↗
AI and agentsJul 12How to Give Any AI Harness Access to the Live WebRead ↗
AI and agentsJul 5The AI Chatbot Era Is Ending. Teams Are Optimizing the Wrong LayerRead ↗
AI and agentsJun 28Your AI Agent Doesn’t Need Better Prompts. It Needs a GoalRead ↗
AI and agentsJun 21I Stopped Chasing Better Prompts. These 5 Loops Cut My AI BabysittingRead ↗
AI and agentsJun 14Before You Trust an AI Agent, Make It Fail LocallyRead ↗
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I'm the Chief AI Officer at JobNimbus. I run a real AI stack: coding agents, local models, multi-agent systems and publish the receipts: what it costs, what broke, and what actually ships.

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Listed on Newsletters Oct 17, 2026. No changes to its feed, price, platform, status or cadence since.