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@kaushikgopal & @IurySza dug into: - shaping the agent environment & 5 themes for harness engineering - then on building a harness For your ears 🎧 fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/307/

OpenAI spent 20% of every week cleaning up AI slop from their own coding agents. So they built a "harness" shaping the agent's environment so the slop never ships in the first place. New episode 307 on Harness Engineering !

Listen to our newest episode: Keeping your agent instructions in sync and effective fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/306

Are AGENTS[.]md files even useful? There’s finally a paper asking the obvious question. @kaushikgopal and @IurySza get into the paper, the sync problem, and the small amount of discipline required to stop your agent setup from turning into a mess.

No episode this week dear listeners but fun newsletter with that story and 10 promised tips from @IurySza and @kaushikgopal buttondown.com/fragmentedcast… Subscribe to our newsletter for more of this content!

A script that analyzed mouth movements frame-by-frame from the silent video, correlated that motion signal against audio energy bursts in our local recordings, and recovered the exact timing offsets. ... only felt like this simplest solution 😅

We almost shipped an episode with a silent master track 😬 Adobe Podcast returned 58 minutes of completely silent video for one of our episodes. No audio. Just two guys miming a podcast. 😨 Here's how we recovered it 🧵

If you're curious to learn more about subagents, new @FragmentedCast ep out with @kaushikgopal & @IurySza! what subagents actually are, a convenient RTS scout analogy, when to spawn them vs when not to. all in this week's episode! fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/305/

Master subagents and your AI coding sessions stay sharp for hours with clean results and no context pollution. Under the hood though? they're just a tool call. One model prompting another in a scoped context. 💡

thanks for sharing our episode last weekend @androidweekly 🙌 Ep 303 explains how LLMs work in a simple and relatable way. It really is one we'd love all devs to listen to.

Skills solve context bloat — every instruction in AGENTS eats tokens until your agent's results tank. We also cover the dark side of skills. When to use skills, how they differ from commands/MCPs, and how not to get pwned: 🎧 fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/304

Everyone's talking about @openclaw (Clawdbot) right now. But have you looked at what actually makes it so extensible? Agent Skills! modular SKILL md files that teach an agent how to do anything. We did a deep dive on Ep 304. 🧵

Ever get asked "how do LLMs work?" and freeze? 🎧 Listen to Ep 303 and fix that 🎧 fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/303/ We walk through tokenization, embeddings, and inference: the full pipeline in 20(ish) minutes. Enough to hold your own at the next dinner party.

You can listen to @kaushikgopal and @IurySza talking about MCPs your host for @FragmentedCast on the Android Dev News app! #AndroidDev Download the app ⬇️🙏 play.google.com/store/apps/det…

What are MCPs? are they worth the token cost? 🎧 Listen to Ep 302 and find out! 🎧 fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/302/ We break down what an MCP actually is, how it differs from just using CLIs, the tradeoffs you should know about, and when MCPs actually make sense for your workflow.

🙌 & 🙏 @androidweekly for including our episode on the AI coding ladder ! fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/301/

Episode and shownotes can be found at fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/301/

🎧 Episode 301 is out - AI coding ladder 🎧 Most developers say AI coding like it's one thing but it's not. Listen to @kaushikgopal & @iurysza talk about the different AI coding paradigms. Where you are on the ladder?

I’ve been a @FragmentedCast listener since before my first dev job. It’s surreal to join @kaushikgopal as co-host for this new AI-focused season! So I'm super excited to get into the ins and outs of AI coding. What works, what doesnt, and how to approach it. Let’s do this!🎙️🤘

🎧 Episode 300 is now out! 🎧 From Vibe Coding → Software Engineering Announcing our biggest pivot and our new cohost @IurySza. 🤭 You have to listen to the episode just to hear Iury's take on AI. 🤭 fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/300