Fragmented - AI Developer Podcast

Kaushik Gopal, Iury Souza
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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 AI tools. No hype. No "I shipped a SaaS in a weekend" stories. Just tactics that work. Hosted by Kaushik Gopal and Iury Souza — software engineers using AI daily to build and ship real products. From vibe coding to software engineering — one episode at a time. Our goal: help you use AI to become a better engineer, not be replaced by one.

  1. 10H AGO

    307 - Harness Engineering - the hard part of AI coding

    The hard part of AI coding isn't generating code — it's controlling quality, safety, and drift. Kaushik and Iury break down harness engineering: the five pillars for shaping an agent's environment and what it looks like when teams build custom harnesses from scratch. Full shownotes at fragmentedpodcast.com. Show Notes Why it matters Harness Engineering - OpenAI's post on building their Codex codebase (~1M lines of code, 1,500 PRs merged, zero manually written) Shaping the harness The Feed's Lost and Found - Iury's newsletter consolidating harness engineering themes Agent legibility Closed feedback loops Persistent memory Entropy control Blast radius controls Building the harness Minions: Stripe's one-shot, end-to-end coding agents - Stripe forked Goose to build custom agents for their codebase Goose - open-source coding agent from Block Superpowers by Jesse Vincent - skills that enforce a proper software engineering process Open Code - open-source coding agent you can fork and customize Other resources Agent Harness Glossary - Latent Patterns Towards self-driving codebases - Cursor Agentic Workflows - GitHub Next Future of Software Development - ThoughtWorks Get in touch We'd love to hear from you. Email is the best way to reach us or you can check our contact page for other ways. We want to hear all the feedback: what's working, what's not, topics you'd like to hear more on. Contact us Newsletter Youtube Website Co-hosts: Kaushik Gopal Iury Souza [!fyi] We transitioned from Android development to AI starting withEp. #300. Listen to that episode for the full story behind our new direction.

    30 min

  2. MAR 10

    306 - Keeping your agent instructions in sync and effective

    AGENTS.md is becoming the common language for AI coding tools, but keeping repo rules, personal rules, and tool-specific files in sync is still messy. In this episode, Kaushik and Iury break down the sync problem, compare their own setups, and unpack what the latest AGENTS.md research actually says. Full shownotes at fragmentedpodcast.com. Show Notes The sync problem AGENTS.md - Official spec Custom instructions with AGENTS.md - Open AI Keep your AGENTS.md in sync - Kaushik's post Rulesync - What Iury uses Tweet by Ryan Carson and Claude frustrations Other links Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful for Coding Agents? Harness engineering - Check the section about using AGENTS.md as a table of contents OpenCode Get in touch We'd love to hear from you. Email is the best way to reach us or you can check our contact page for other ways. We want to hear all the feedback: what's working, what's not, topics you'd like to hear more on. Contact us Newsletter Youtube Website Co-hosts: Kaushik Gopal Iury Souza [!fyi] We transitioned from Android development to AI starting withEp. #300. Listen to that episode for the full story behind our new direction.

    23 min

  3. FEB 17

    305 - Subagents explained - What they are, when (not) to spawn them

    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 fragmentedpodcast.com. Show NotesResources & DocumentationOfficial DocumentationAgents, Modes, Subagents: official harness docs Claude Code SubagentsGemini CLI SubagentsOpencode SubagentsCursor SubagentsAntigravity Agent ModesAOE ScoutingResearch Papers & ArticlesIntroducing Claude Opus 4.5Deep-Research Agents PaperPost: GPT-5 System Card by Alex XuSelf-Driving Codebases Blog - multi-agent systems making 1,000 commits/hourGet in touchWe'd love to hear from you. Email is the best way to reach us or you can check our contact page for other ways. We want to hear all the feedback: what's working, what's not, topics you'd like to hear more on. Contact usNewsletterYoutubeWebsiteCo-hosts:Kaushik GopalIury Souza[!fyi] We transitioned from Android development to AI starting with Ep. #300. Listen to that episode for the full story behind our new direction.

    27 min

  4. FEB 9

    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 fragmentedpodcast.com. Show NotesMain ReferencesProgressive Disclosure - how skills are loaded into contextAgent Skills Open SpecificationAAIF (Agentic AI Foundation) - Linux Foundation initiative for AI interoperabilityNeedle in a Haystack Problem - original "Lost in the Middle" paperAgent-Invokable vs User-Invokable - merging skills and commands in Claude CodeCreating SkillsSkill Creator - Anthropic's skill for creating new agent skillsClaude Code frontmatter referencesee model: * & context: forkUsing other SkillsAnthropic Skills GitHub Repository - official collection of Claude skills and examplesClawdhub - Clawdbot's skill hub. All versions are archived hereSKILLS.sh - Vercel's skills hubWarnings before installing random skills[!warning] Don't install from hubs blindly. Inspect the repo code before adding anything to your agent. Prompt Injection Attacks - OWASP guide to LLM prompt injection vulnerabilitiesOpenClaw OpenClaw Security Analysis - analysis of prompt injection risks in open agent frameworksMalware found in a top-downloaded Clawhub skill - incident report threadAdditional resourcesFew-Shot Prompting - improving outputs with examples.agents/skills - proposal to standardize the skills folder pathVercel: AGENTS.md vs Skills - comparison of agent instruction methodsGet in touchWe'd love to hear from you. Email is the best way to reach us or you can check our contact page for other ways. We want to hear all the feedback: what's working, what's not, topics you'd like to hear more on. Contact usNewsletterYoutubeWebsiteCo-hosts:Kaushik GopalIury Souza[!fyi] We transitioned from Android development to AI starting with Ep. #300. Listen to that episode for the full story behind our new direction.

    27 min

  5. FEB 2

    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. _Full shownotes at fragmentedpodcast.com. Show NotesWords -> Tokens:OpenAI Tokenizer visualizer - Visualize how text becomes tokensTokens -> Embeddings:RGB Color model - wikipediaWord2Vec technique - wikipediaEfficient Estimation of Word Representation - original Word2Vec paper by Mikolov et al.Embeddings -> Inference:Word embeddingTemperature, Top-k, Top-p sampingGet in touchWe'd love to hear from you. Email is the best way to reach us or you can check our contact page for other ways. We want to hear all the feedback: what's working, what's not, topics you'd like to hear more on. We want to make the show better for you so let us know! Contact usNewsletterYoutubeWebsiteCo-hosts:Kaushik GopalIury Souza[!fyi] We transitioned from Android development to AI starting with Ep. #300. Listen to that episode for the full story behind our new direction.

    26 min

  6. JAN 26

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

    MCPs are everywhere, but are they worth the token cost? We break down what Model Context Protocol actually is, how it differs from just using CLIs, the tradeoffs you should know about, and when MCPs actually make sense for your workflow. Full shownotes at fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/302. Show NotesMCP - Model Context ProtocolRemote MCP server example - GleanAAIF - Agentic AI Foundation setup by Linux foundationGithub MCPGithub gh CLIPlaywright MCPContext7 MCPAnthropic's announcement on Advanced Tool UseTipsIury: use ast-grep to structurally search code fasterKG: use agent-browser by Vercel to give browsing power to your agentGet in touchWe'd love to hear from you. Email is the best way to reach us or you can check our contact page for other ways. We want to hear all the feedback: what's working, what's not, topics you'd like to hear more on. We want to make the show better for you so let us know! Contact usNewsletterYoutubeWebsiteCo-hosts:Kaushik GopalIury SouzaWe transitioned from Android development to AI starting with Ep. #300. Listen to that episode for the full story behind our new direction.

    19 min

  7. JAN 19

    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. Show NotesGen 1: Super autocompleteIntellisense - regular autocompleteGithub CopilotCursor TabGen 2: Chat Oriented ProgrammingCursor IDEFirebenderGen 3: AgentNvidia's definition of an AgentReAct PromptingChain of Thought was a prompting hackDeepSeekDeepSeek - R1 paperTUI tools (or Harnesses):Claude CodeOpen CodeCodex CliGemini CliIDE style toolsCursor AgentCopilot (MS)Junie - IntellijAntigravity - GoogleHeadless Tools:Jules - GoogleClaude Code on the WebCodex WebGen 4: Agent OrchestrationGit worktreesTipsIury: Transfer between agents using your own compact commandKG: Ask the agent to clarify your promptConfirm if my requirements are clear. If you have follow up questions, ask me first and clarify before executing anything. Contact usNewsletterWebsiteContact usYoutubeCo-hosts:Kaushik GopalIury Souza

    25 min

  8. JAN 12

    300 - From Vibe coding to Software engineering

    Fragmented is changing. New direction, new cohost. Kaushik explains the pivot from Android to AI development and introduces Iury Souza. From vibe coding to software engineering — one episode at a time. Full shownotes at fragmentedpodcast.com. Contact usNewsletterWebsiteContact usYoutubeCo-hosts:Kaushik GopalIury Souza

    9 min
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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 AI tools. No hype. No "I shipped a SaaS in a weekend" stories. Just tactics that work. Hosted by Kaushik Gopal and Iury Souza — software engineers using AI daily to build and ship real products. From vibe coding to software engineering — one episode at a time. Our goal: help you use AI to become a better engineer, not be replaced by one.

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