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Jan 19, 2026 24 min

301 - The AI coding ladder

from Fragmented - AI Developer Podcast Hosted by Iury Souza, Kaushik Gopal

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 Intellisense - regular autocomplete Github Copilot Cursor Tab Gen 2: Chat Oriented Programming Cursor IDE Firebender 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 Cursor Agent Copilot (MS) Junie - Intellij Antigravity - Google Headless Tools: Jules - Google Claude Code on the Web Codex Web 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. Contact us Newsletter Website Contact us Youtube Co-hosts: Kaushik Gopal Iury Souza

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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!

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