302 - MCPs Explained - what they are and when to use them

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   E305 · 17 Feb 2026 · 27 min

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   Subagents are becoming a core primitive for serious AI-assisted development. In this episode, Kaushik and Iury disambiguate "agent" terminology, unpack plan mode vs subagents, and explain how parallel, scoped workers improve research quality without polluting the main thread. Full shownotes at https://fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/305

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   E304 · 9 Feb 2026 · 27 min

   304 - Agent Skills - when to use them and why they matter

   Agent Skills look simple, but they are one of the most powerful building blocks in modern AI coding workflows. In this episode, Kaushik and Iury break down when to use skills, how progressive disclosure works, and how skills compare with commands, instructions, and MCPs. Full shownotes at https://fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/304

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   E303 · 2 Feb 2026 · 26 min

   303 - How LLMs Work - the 20 minute explainer

   Ever get asked "how do LLMs work?" at a party and freeze? We walk through the full pipeline: tokenization, embeddings, inference — so you understand it well enough to explain it. Walk away with a mental model that you can use for your next dinner party.

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   E301 · 19 Jan 2026 · 25 min

   301 - The AI coding ladder

   Most folks reference "AI coding" like it's one thing. It's really not. In this foundational episode Kaushik & Iury walk through (at least) four paradigms — from super autocomplete to agent orchestration — each with different workflows, expectations, and mental models. What do most developers follow today? Where is the frontier? What's coming in the future? Listen to the episode and find out!

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   E300 · 12 Jan 2026 · 9 min

   300 - From Vibe coding to Software engineering

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   E257 · 4 Mar 2025 · 48 min

   257 - Future of AndroidDev in an AI world with Vinay Gaba

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   E311 · 6 Sep 2026 · 13 min

   311 - Self learning harnesses are here

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   E310 · 14 Apr 2026 · 1 hr

   310 - Mitchell Hashimoto on Ghostty & His Agentic Coding Workflow

   Mitchell Hashimoto co-founded HashiCorp, built some of the most impressive DevOps tools like Vagrant and Terraform, sold the company to IBM — and then built a terminal. Ghostty is now where a huge chunk of agentic coding actually happens. Mitchell was an AI skeptic. We walk through his six-step adoption framework and the workflows he uses day to day — warm-start research, Hail Mary prompts across twenty GitHub issues, and knowing when to let the agent slam dunk it. Full shownotes at https://fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/310/

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   E309 · 1 Apr 2026 · 26 min

   309 - Background Agents

   Andrej Karpathy says the goal is to maximize how long an agent runs without your intervention. But there's a false summit most teams hit first: individual speed goes up while system speed stalls, your laptop roars under four parallel Gradle builds, and review queues back up. Kaushik and Iury trace the full arc — from local multitasking to cloud-hosted async work to fully autonomous agents that fire on repo events and put PRs in your inbox. Full shownotes at https://fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/309

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    E308 · 24 Mar 2026 · 25 min

    308 - How Image Diffusion Models Work - the 20 minute explainer

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