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In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk about 5 new-ish Kotlin constructs that you might not be aware of.

Fragmented - AI Developer Podcast

by Kaushik Gopal, Iury Souza · English · Tech & Science

Fragmented is an AI developer podcast for engineers who want to go beyond vibe coding and ship real software. We cover AI-assisted development the way working engineers actually use it: prompting strategies, code review, testing, debugging, workflows, and building production-grade software with…

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