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!

Full shownotes at fragmentedpodcast.com.

Show Notes

Gen 1: Super autocomplete

Gen 2: Chat Oriented Programming

Gen 3: Agent

Nvidia's definition of an Agent
ReAct Prompting
Chain of Thought was a prompting hack
DeepSeek
- DeepSeek - R1 paper
TUI tools (or Harnesses):
- Claude Code
- Open Code
- Codex Cli
- Gemini Cli
IDE style tools
Headless Tools:

Gen 4: Agent Orchestration

Git worktrees

Tips

Iury: Transfer between agents using your own
compact command
KG: Ask the agent to clarify your prompt

Confirm if my requirements are clear. If you have follow up questions, ask me
first and clarify before executing anything.

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301 - The AI coding ladder

Fragmented - AI Developer Podcast

301 - The AI coding ladder