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!
Full shownotes at fragmentedpodcast.com (fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/301).
Show Notes
Gen 1: Super autocomplete
• Intellisense - regular autocomplete (learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/usi…)
• Github Copilot (code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/ai-powered-…)
• Cursor Tab (cursor.com/docs/tab/overview)
Gen 2: Chat Oriented Programming
• Cursor IDE (cursor.com)
• Firebender (firebender.com)
Gen 3: Agent
• Nvidia's definition of an Agent (developer.nvidia.com/blog/introduction-to-llm-…)
• ReAct Prompting (promptingguide.ai/techniques/react)
• Chain of Thought was a prompting hack (arxiv.org/html/2310.06117v2)
• DeepSeek (deepseek.com/en)• DeepSeek - R1 paper (arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12948)

• TUI tools (or Harnesses):• Claude Code (github.com/anthropics/claude-code)
• Open Code (opencode.ai)
• Codex Cli (github.com/openai/codex)
• Gemini Cli (github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli)

• IDE style tools• Cursor Agent (cursor.com/learn/agents)
• Copilot (MS) (github.com/features/copilot)
• Junie - Intellij (jetbrains.com/junie)
• Antigravity - Google (antigravity.google)

• Headless Tools:• Jules - Google (jules.google)
• Claude Code on the Web (code.claude.com/docs/en/claude-code-on-the-web)
• Codex Web (developers.openai.com/codex/cloud)

Gen 4: Agent Orchestration
• Git worktrees (git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree)
Tips
• Iury: Transfer between agents using your own
compact command (gist.github.com/AtlantisPleb/1dbe12a0bc8c668ef…)
• 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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Co-hosts:
• Kaushik Gopal (kau.sh)
• Iury Souza (iurysouza.dev)